From: Tharushi Jayasekara <tharushi68@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 06:03:58 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: run: fix maximum number of parallel processes
X-Git-Tag: suricata-6.0.4~155
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=66ffe23936733494176f4f93aed074043edb615c;p=thirdparty%2Fsuricata-verify.git

run: fix maximum number of parallel processes

Unless -j is provided, set the maximum number of processes to 8 if
the cpu count exceeds that.
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diff --git a/run.py b/run.py
index e5879b821..7afe96495 100755
--- a/run.py
+++ b/run.py
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ def main():
 
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Verification test runner.")
     parser.add_argument("-v", dest="verbose", action="store_true")
-    parser.add_argument("-j", type=int, default=mp.cpu_count(),
+    parser.add_argument("-j", type=int, default=min(8, mp.cpu_count()),
                         help="Number of jobs to run")
     parser.add_argument("--force", dest="force", action="store_true",
                         help="Force running of skipped tests")