From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MY5M7-0005YZ-IC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:46:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9716FE01C2; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 21:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE25E01C2 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 21:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 885AB58DDDC for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:46:05 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:45:59 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make.conf MAKEOPTS=-j2 Message-ID: <20090803224559.7d75a1ab@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20090802092037.6b380c87@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20090802172340.09916a8b@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <20090802133741.3094df61@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20090803121137.GA28457@waltdnes.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs15 (GTK+ 2.16.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/8KD29At3zB5TIUx+ErO3T8D"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: e1e43918-9951-454f-8b36-5a9bef1a2d98 X-Archives-Hash: 40aa4bd1013405cbec89f04487f99754 --Sig_/8KD29At3zB5TIUx+ErO3T8D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:16:18 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > So my advice for others is to not take Walter's advice and use -j1=20 > because "it doesn't slow down the emerge that much". It can slow it=20 > down. Up to four times slower. Personaly, I've never had an ebuild fail due to setting MAKEOPTS=3D-j>1 but if you want to set -j1 in make.conf, you can regain a significant part of the time loss, by running emerge with --jobs=3D2 (or more) to run multiple compiles in parallel while keeping each package's compilation single-threaded.=20 --=20 Neil Bothwick Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist? --Sig_/8KD29At3zB5TIUx+ErO3T8D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkp3WpwACgkQum4al0N1GQNsrwCguyzfUkfubXeUhxBKhcaxnnwd ffkAn02CPtnffBPSCbP3nXnu9lVeBaQ3 =ONkM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/8KD29At3zB5TIUx+ErO3T8D--