From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 14234 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2023 16:07:15 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 30 Jan 2023 16:07:15 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54553425E1; Tue, 31 Jan 2023 02:07:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 382EF4259A for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2023 02:07:06 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id EE91535E91A; Mon, 30 Jan 2023 08:07:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 08:07:05 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Bakul Shah Message-ID: <20230130160705.GG12306@mcvoy.com> References: <38B1D4CE-C239-4777-B606-FC641655DBCB@iitbombay.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <38B1D4CE-C239-4777-B606-FC641655DBCB@iitbombay.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: HPM6TGZ5ACDWQQ2JB4QBG4GZBKGZREJO X-Message-ID-Hash: HPM6TGZ5ACDWQQ2JB4QBG4GZBKGZREJO X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: FD 2 List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 08:03:42AM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote: > > > > On Jan 30, 2023, at 7:18 AM, Dan Cross 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. -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat