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 1PiTFq-00021u-2f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:55:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E1EDE0998; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:53:47 +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 023A6E0998 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:53:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D65C968F4A3 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:53:45 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:53:39 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies Message-ID: <20110127145339.30a0b4f7@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20110127100158.692bd251@digimed.co.uk> <4D416F12.8000202@gmail.com> <20110127141625.09298a30@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8cvs47 (GTK+ 2.22.1; 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_/vxkexmBiyI9NxRxYlBHo4K3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 63853f0a66890ed363289c7e0ff232b1 --Sig_/vxkexmBiyI9NxRxYlBHo4K3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:30:30 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > 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 >=20 > And what about the last package? The time you gained for faster=20 > configure and install (which don't take too much time anyway) is wasted=20 > again on the last package. So on a 20 package world update, only 19 are faster while the 20th runs at the same speed? Where's the loss there? Even if the last were slower, it would be worth it. Note that I never use --jobs without an argument, 2 by default, although I could let emerge decide how many parallel processes to run. --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 47: Act naturally --Sig_/vxkexmBiyI9NxRxYlBHo4K3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1BhvgACgkQum4al0N1GQOQvACgnzZ8YHlqdFr5QxDFi6rjDxNW 1rUAoJkeZqeYLYoun1vgiH+ks+y+8ZK9 =GBzD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/vxkexmBiyI9NxRxYlBHo4K3--