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usefulcat on Nov 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Netflix on Ubuntu Is Here

For bash: alias make="nice make -j $(grep 'processor' /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l)"

eik3_de on Nov 16, 2012 | [–]

> grep 'processor' /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l

or use "grep -c" instead of piping through wc

cpeterso on Nov 16, 2012 | [–]

make -l (--load-average) will throttle the number of make jobs, so you can specify a big -j to have many ready jobs but ensure you don't exceed run more than your number of CPUs.

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