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 1PiSg3-0004cb-Hu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:18:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D329E0AF1; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:16:31 +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 1B17BE0AF1 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:16:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1619768F53B for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:16:29 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:16:25 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies Message-ID: <20110127141625.09298a30@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20110127100158.692bd251@digimed.co.uk> <4D416F12.8000202@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8cvs47 (GTK+ 2.22.1; x86_64-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_/S/ULNckGqrEYpMpVL9me=c8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b1efffa35b25efef3b5994ec9aa5f0ae --Sig_/S/ULNckGqrEYpMpVL9me=c8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:33:21 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I am using the -j option for the first time now. I'm updating KDE. It > > seems to work fine. It doesn't scroll all the stuff like with a > > regular emerges but this new rig is so fast, I can't read it anyway. > > I did have a package to fail and it spit out the error for me to > > read. =20 >=20 > You don't need that if you have MAKEOPTS set in your make.conf, which > is preferred. The -j option of emerge emerges multiple packages, while=20 > with MAKEOPTS set to "-j4" or whatever does a parallel build in the > same package (meaning compiling multiple source files at the same time). And how many CPU cores are used during the configure and install stages? Using --jobs does a better job of making use of your CPU because one package can use it fully for compiling while another is configuring. --=20 Neil Bothwick Beware of the opinion of someone without any facts. --Sig_/S/ULNckGqrEYpMpVL9me=c8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1Bfj0ACgkQum4al0N1GQPfXgCgvb0vbOWmoE6V6LVYr9YDppd9 OEoAn2ntUxwlTPWM6ug+PVbM6bS4kWqW =XTWC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/S/ULNckGqrEYpMpVL9me=c8--