Bug#209008: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
On 14/03/07 at 20:54 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Lucas Nussbaum:
>
> > Such a machine looks a bit strange (6 CPUs vs 256 MB RAM). I think that
> > usually, modern SMPs have "enough" memory to handle what all their CPUs
> > can do.
>
> I'm not sure. 512 MB per execution unit is not too uncommen and may
> cause problems for C++ packages (or MLton).
Bastian's example is not 256 MB per CPU, it's 256 MB total.
But on such a system, you could still say:
"Well, I want to rebuild several packages, I know some of them might
cause problems with only 512 MB per WU, so I'll build with parallel=2,
not parallel=6, just to be on the safe side."
I've never said that I would like the default value for 'parallel' to be
the number of CPUs. This doesn't seem to be reasonable.
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