stdenv: Pass -lN to GNU Make based on NIX_LOAD_LIMIT #184886
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Description of changes
On busy machines where Nix co-exists with other workloads, parallelism not work as intended. For example, consider a 64 core machine whose load average is 24 and where Nix is limited to 8 cores. By default,
-j8 -l8
will be passed to GNU Make. Since the load average exceeds 8, no parallelism will take place despite the fact that 8 cores are available. In this case,load-limit
should be set to0
to prevent the-lN
flag from being passed to GNU Make.See also: #174473 NixOS/nix#6855
Things done
sandbox = true
set innix.conf
? (See Nix manual)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD"
. Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage./result/bin/
)nixos/doc/manual/md-to-db.sh
to update generated release notes