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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions doc/whatsnew/2/2.14/full.rst
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Closes #7006

* Fixed an issue where many-core Windows machines (>~60 logical processors) would hang when
using the default jobs count.

Closes #6965

What's New in Pylint 2.14.3?
----------------------------
Release date: 2022-06-18
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion pylint/lint/base_options.py
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"short": "j",
"default": 1,
"help": "Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint. Specifying 0 will "
"auto-detect the number of processors available to use.",
"auto-detect the number of processors available to use, and will cap "
"the count on Windows to avoid hangs.",
},
),
(
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions pylint/lint/run.py
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cpu_count = multiprocessing.cpu_count()
else:
cpu_count = 1
if sys.platform == "win32":
# See also https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/94242
cpu_count = min(cpu_count, 56) # pragma: no cover
if cpu_share is not None:
return min(cpu_share, cpu_count)
return cpu_count
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