Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 19:27:11 +0200 From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> To: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xargs -P0 suport Message-ID: <20150522172711.GA15102@dft-labs.eu> In-Reply-To: <555F5A34.3090907@freebsd.org> References: <a1950a723f8a3eb8bd4eea74198916ae@mail.lifanov.com> <555EA1C0.8010909@freebsd.org> <555F4BB9.1020001@mail.lifanov.com> <555F5A34.3090907@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:32:52PM -0400, Allan Jude wrote: > There is some question about if nargs is a sane value for maxprocs in > the negative case. 5000 does seem a bit high, and the behaviour can get > wonky depending on the order you specify -P and -n together on the > command line. > > Any suggestions? > GNU xargs imposes no limit whatsoever, but it also supports reallocating its process table, while our xargs allocates one upfront and does not change it. I would say reading hard proc resource limit and using that as the limit would do the job just fine. -- Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>
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