Re: how to simulate --max-load option on windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Adrian Muresan <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 18:32:14 +0000
> 
> I'm using make 3.81 on windows doing parallel builds with this hack: 
> 
> make all -j4 MAKE="make -j4"
> 
> It works but I need a way to limit CPU usage or number of simultaneous makes.
> 
> I have to use 3.81 because it's part of our SDK but I tried make 4.2.1 on 
> Windows and --max-load still doesn't
> work

Windows lacks the infrastructure needed to implement the loadavg
function, so this option doesn't work on Windows.

Make 4.2 does implement -jN option for Windows, so if you know how to
choose the right value of N (typically, the number of execution
cores), you should be fine.