Serializing possibly resource-intensive tasks such as meinproc

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 08 of January 2010, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 04:09:27PM +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 of January 2010, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > for one, covering just meinproc is a bit shortsighted (i bet a few
> > > webkit links can blow your box just as nicely :D).
> >
> > They can't, because I don't run into 20 webkit links at the same time.
>
> well, that was an extreme case. a lower-mem box will blow with fewer,
> smaller libraries.
> 20 uics, (auto-)mocs, etc. are all not nice, either. they might not blow
> the ram, but they slow down the rest of the system enough to be
> annoying.
>
> > And since icecream currently serializes down to one task even if the
> > machine has more cores, I don't want to cover more than what's
> > necessary.
>
> this sounds like a nice thing to fix then. ;)

 Gee, I don't need it to be perfect, all I want is parallel make not to bring 
the machine down to its knees. If my improvement isn't liked, then I can keep 
it locally like Thiago and everybody else can forget it.

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer
 l.lunak at suse.cz , l.lunak at kde.org