[Nix-dev] build-cores, load limit and boinc

[Michael Raskin]

>if your load is about 4, why bother? Isn't your cpu utilized well then?
>
>You could hook into the make files instead. make is passing "tokens" to
>submakes which signals that it may spawn a process. If a submake is done
>it passes back the token. This way make controls load. Now you could
>hook into make and make nix pass tokens to make..
>However I have no idea about how much work this would be.

You seem to misunderstand the problem. It looks like a priority problem:
if nothing else uses CPU, boinc (something unrelated to builds) can take
it, but the build should be fast.