From: Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5?
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:33:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347467612.32530.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50508700.1030605@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 08:58 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> So essentially what you're saying here is that it might be worthwhile
> to look into parallelism as a whole and possibly come up with a
> solution that combines 'emerge --jobs' and build-system parallelism
> together to maximum benefit?
Forget about jobs and load average, and just keep starting jobs all
around until there is only 20% (or whatever tuneable amount) free memory
left. As far as I can tell this is always the real bottleneck in the
end. Once you hit swap overall throughput has to go down quite a bit.
Hans
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-04 20:29 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-12-04 20:37 ` Luca Barbato
2008-12-04 20:40 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2008-12-04 20:46 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-12-04 20:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alec Warner
2008-12-04 21:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-12-05 4:33 ` Joe Peterson
2008-12-05 7:23 ` Rémi Cardona
2008-12-05 10:30 ` Peter Volkov
2008-12-05 11:44 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2012-08-31 8:21 ` [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? (was: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS) Ulrich Mueller
2012-08-31 14:45 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-08-31 15:12 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-09-02 0:20 ` Brian Harring
2012-09-02 1:26 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-04 11:00 ` Walter Dnes
2012-09-04 17:15 ` [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? Zac Medico
2012-09-11 16:36 ` vivo75
2012-09-11 16:43 ` Zac Medico
2012-09-11 16:54 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-11 17:07 ` Zac Medico
2012-09-11 19:16 ` Rich Freeman
2012-09-12 9:55 ` Gregory M. Turner
2012-09-12 12:58 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-12 16:33 ` Hans de Graaff [this message]
2012-09-12 16:48 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-12 16:58 ` Zac Medico
2012-09-12 17:03 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-12 18:52 ` Gregory M. Turner
2012-09-12 15:18 ` vivo75
2012-08-31 15:27 ` [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? (was: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS) Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-08-31 16:08 ` [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? Ian Stakenvicius
2012-08-31 16:11 ` Ian Stakenvicius
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