[distcc] More jobs than CPUs

[Jeremy Brand, B.S.]

Thus spake darryl:

> While i dont' have an answer to the question it does remind me to point
> out something that happened to me when specifying more jobs than CPU's
> using Windows 2000 cygwin 'hosts.' The scenario is building on linux
> using Cygwin->linux cross-compilers on 2 windows boxes.
>
> If i specify make -jx where x is more than the actual number of CPU's
> available; the cygwin boxes go crazy... 100% CPU usage by distccd. I
> basically have to kill distccd on the main machine then kill distccd on
> the cygwin boxes to regain control.

Ah, that means you are not wasting electricity then :)  Except for burning
spare cycles running windows.

100% CPU, and _crazy_ does not supprise me on windows.  Process management
is less than desirable in windows.

Jeremy