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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HOVm5-0001Pl-N1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:16:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l269E7TU027551; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:14:07 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.149.33.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l269E6KV027545 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:14:07 GMT Received: from wstn.prhnet (prh.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.251.123]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F6664E546 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:14:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] System load during emerge Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:14:34 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200703041151.37846.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> <45EB1023.7060004@digital-trauma.de> In-Reply-To: <45EB1023.7060004@digital-trauma.de> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703060914.34362.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 8c0d269d-2239-4440-a906-92a16207d31f X-Archives-Hash: 427a094419d73ae27b0ee59a1f4c9934 On Sunday 04 March 2007 18:29:55 Thomas R=F6sner wrote: > What are your MAKEOPTS set to? =2Dj5, to give one active and one waiting on each CPU, with one just in cas= e. > Are you sure firefox can be built in parallel? I can't say I am. It does appear to launch a batch of compilations together= ,=20 but then, later, top only shows one compiler instance at a time. > Depending on how long lived the g++ processes are, top showing=20 > low CPU percentage for them is quite normal. I don't understand the connection with long life. > If nothing helps, try compiling inside a screen session. Hmm. I haven't used screen yet, not having had a need so far as I know. Thanks for the ideas. =2D-=20 Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list