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Limit parallel compile on hosts with limited memory #26

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https://github.com/mdavidsaver/setuptools_dso/blob/0b7223087d0d25b43fc31f095d0987513002a5e3/src/setuptools_dso/dsocmd.py#L354

It would be helpful to detect hosts with many cores, but limited RAM. (eg. a Pi with 4 cores but only 1GB of RAM) Such systems often can't compile multiple objects without paging onto very slow storage, which defeats the purpose of parallel compilation.

I see two parts:

  • A portable way to detect available RAM (and swap?).
  • A heuristic for deciding how to limit concurrency.

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