Max_jobs 40 prevent packer from hanging on macOS

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Max_jobs 40 prevent packer from hanging on macOS

luxus opened this issue 2 years ago · 4 comments

for whatever reason packer struggle to download all plugins and stuck while downloading
max_jobs = nil, -- Limit the number of simultaneous jobs. nil means no limit

Answer 1 · 2022-08-23T16:59:16.000Z

I actually have this changed for my Mac locally but haven't gotten around to upstreaming it, thanks :D

Answer 2 · 2022-08-23T17:40:42.000Z

i found the real solution btw.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25385934/setting-environment-variables-via-launchd-conf-no-longer-works-in-os-x-yosemite
and
adding ulimit -n 10240

Answer 3 · 2022-08-23T17:42:29.000Z

do you plan any updates? i tried ur config but gave up because of too many errors :D

Answer 4 · 2022-08-26T17:43:43.000Z

I think I'll leave it at that. This way the setup doesn't assume anything about the host system and works anywhere. (I also really dislike running system commands from configs)