Put a 5 second cap on the delay produced by Scheduler._job_delay().

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=11277

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/pym/_emerge/__init__.py b/pym/_emerge/__init__.py
index f69928ee3..e418f0353 100644
--- a/pym/_emerge/__init__.py
+++ b/pym/_emerge/__init__.py
@@ -8862,6 +8862,7 @@ class Scheduler(PollScheduler):
 		# The load average takes some time to respond when new
 		# jobs are added, so we need to limit the rate of adding
 		# new jobs.
+		self._job_delay_max = 5
 		self._job_delay_factor = 0.5
 		self._previous_job_start_time = None
 
@@ -9690,8 +9691,10 @@ class Scheduler(PollScheduler):
 
 			current_time = time.time()
 
-			if current_time - self._previous_job_start_time < \
-				self._job_delay_factor * self._jobs:
+			delay = self._job_delay_factor * self._jobs
+			if delay > self._job_delay_max:
+				delay = self._job_delay_max
+			if (current_time - self._previous_job_start_time) < delay:
 				return True
 
 		return False