Re: -djob-count not working?

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno dom 23 dic 2018 alle 17:25, Federico Bruni 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> Hi folks
>
> I would expect -djob-count=2 to launch 2 processes which I should see 
> in my system monitor, but I see only one lilypond instance. I'm 
> missing something or what?
>
> I have a 2 core CPU (and 4 threads).
>
> By the way, when I build a project of mine which uses Meson/Ninja, I 
> see 4 lilypond processes active at the same time. This happens 
> because Meson automatically detects the number of CPU and parallelize 
> itself accordingly:
> https://mesonbuild.com/Running-Meson.html#building-the-source

OK, forget it: I was compiling a single file.
I see now that -djob-count makes sense when compiling multiple files:

$ lilypond -djob-count=4 *.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.19.82

Forking into jobs:  (5353 5352 5351 5350)