[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 2/2] runqueue: Introduce load balanced task spawning

Mikko.Rapeli at bmw.de Mikko.Rapeli at bmw.de
Tue Aug 14 06:32:04 UTC 2018


Just my 2 € cents to the discussion:

we had to limit number of threads because heavy C++ projects were using
all of RAM and causing heavy swapping. Single g++ processes were eating
up to 20 gigabytes of physical ram. It's not just the CPU which is the
limiting factor to parallel task execution.

-Mikko


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