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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 09:35:18 -0500
> 
> 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...

It's also easy enough on MS-Windows.