From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IH07G-0006aG-M2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:35:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l73GXBso025249; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:33:11 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l73GXAF4025244 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:33:10 GMT Received: from [192.168.2.2] (bl4-232-96.dsl.telepac.pt [81.193.232.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E7865391 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] System becomes almost unusable when compling c++ code From: Luis Medinas To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20070803065913.GA23254@localhost> References: <20070803065913.GA23254@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:49:40 +0000 Message-Id: <1186163380.7342.3.camel@fermi> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: aa402f14-494a-4694-b1b9-97e1999019bc X-Archives-Hash: 06e73ee58af262c7b6f42258cd0a5de1 On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:59 +0800, Shaochun Wang wrote: > Every time I compile C++ code, e.g. app-i18n/scim-qtimm, > my desktop system becomes almost not > interactive. I have already set PORTAGE_NICENESS="15" in > /etc/make.conf. > > Any suggestion? > I suggest to reduce the MAKEOPTS. I had this problem with my macbook with -j4 now i'm using -j3 and it doesn't turn the system unusuable. In certain apps i suggest to use -j1 like wxgtk. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list