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 1RUliV-0004VE-PL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:52:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83A4221C105; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:52:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630A321C0A6 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (p5B277830.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.120.48]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 66671DC04C for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:51:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:51:27 +0100 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l Message-ID: <20111127215127.67e7c0bc@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: References: <201111270927.57294.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8cd2b688-cb44-46c8-9e1f-1c6cded5b5cb X-Archives-Hash: e18a6ab6ed5b986315c800dcde541922 Michael Mol writes: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > > I'll steal your 1.6 factor, and give: > > =A0 =A0MAKEOPTS=3D-j <2*N> -l <1.6*N) > > =A0 =A0PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=3D"--jobs --load-average<1.6*N>" > > a try. >=20 > Ah. Which file does PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS go in? It doesn't appear to > have an impact in /etc/make.conf It's EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in make.conf. See man make.conf. Wonko