From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Parallel downloads
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 15:48:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k18h3tii.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wock97ye.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:48:57 +0100")
Hi Pierre,
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:
> I'm not sure I understand: if I run
>
> guix build -M 4 vlc
>
> download progress bars are updated one at a time. Or am I mistaken?
With -M4 you could potentially have 4 substitutions (downloads) going on
in parallel.
Tobias is right: the daemon works in terms of “jobs”, where a job can be
either a build or a substitution (a download). ‘--max-jobs’ controls
that.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-03 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-31 15:07 Parallel downloads Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-31 16:18 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-10-31 16:48 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-31 18:01 ` zimoun
2019-10-31 18:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-03 14:48 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-11-03 15:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-06 15:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-06 16:08 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-09 17:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-10 13:28 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-12 15:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-12 15:59 ` John Soo
2019-11-12 16:48 ` zimoun
2019-11-13 7:43 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-11-13 11:26 ` zimoun
2019-11-12 17:44 ` Leo Famulari
2019-11-17 17:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-13 16:16 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-11-13 18:03 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-13 18:25 ` Leo Famulari
2019-11-13 19:34 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-13 9:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-13 12:25 ` Brett Gilio
2019-11-17 17:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-06 21:26 ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-01 10:06 ` Joshua Branson
2019-11-01 19:11 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-03 14:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
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