Re: need help on "make -j" parameter, it will let the system hung easily.

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 17:07 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Does it even make sense to use -j with no arguments?  Should we
> perhaps remove that possibility, or have some internal sane limit,
> like twice the number of cores, say?

In general I'd say no, the current behavior is not ideal.  However I
don't want to remove the behavior.  I'd rather have the default, if
given no argument, choose a "sane" limit.  However, how does one detect
the number of cores on a system in a portable way?  It's easy enough on
Linux but...