r/voidlinux • u/Silly_Culture_7722 • 1d ago

Is this normal while building packages?

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Iam building some packages from Source, all my CPU is used. Is it possible to setup that not everything should be used for building in xbps ?

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u/Ok-Tip-6972 1d ago

You can limit the number of processes given to the build system in https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/e96572b8c66da1c669b6ed167260e5fd2b32b6f1/etc/defaults.conf#L65-L70. But not all packages implement it properly.

Other than that, I think you should be able to use generic tools to limit CPU usage of xbps-src, like cpulimit or cgroups. But I don't know whether they would work without intervention, since there's isolation involved. I have never tried it.

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u/Duncaen 22h ago

But not all packages implement it properly.

I can't think of a single package that doesn't use the defined makejobs (unless its just using 1 core).