[TUHS] FD 2

Bakul Shah bakul at iitbombay.org
Tue Jan 31 02:13:00 AEST 2023


On Jan 30, 2023, at 8:07 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 08:03:42AM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
>> 
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>>>> On Jan 30, 2023, at 7:18 AM, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> There was no job control on plan9 and I can't say I ever missed it.
>> 
>> Just yesterday I realized running two ???make -j 8??? in parallel was making
>> them both go real slow so I  stopped one of them with ^Z and continued
>> it once the other make finished. This use case can???t be handled with more
>> windows.
> 
> If you don't have job control, do you not have ^C to kill one of the
> make jobs?  I guess you open another window and ps and kill it but
> if the machine is already thrashing that is gonna be unpleasant.

Yes but then you lose a bunch of work. You don’t want to restart,
you just want to delay.


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