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>Received on Fri May 22 2015 - 15:27:17 UTC
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