Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

[Heinz Diehl]

On 12.03.2015, stan wrote:
> When I build firefox nightly with -j6, just at the end of the export
> phase, and before the compile starts, I see all 6 cores maxed out.
> Once the compile starts, it is back to a single core equivalent.  The
> Gentoo users seemed to suggest that this was a flaw in the firefox
> build process, though, and not the fault of the scheduler.

There are some programs which encounter serious trouble when using more than 1
compile process. Don't remember all, but audacity is an example. So the "flaw"
could be a feature..