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 1RUo3H-0000Tp-4a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:22:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B10421C102; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:22:13 +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 32B1A21C0A6 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:21:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8141B8042D for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:21:09 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:21:08 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l Message-ID: <20111127232108.08cbacfd@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <201111270927.57294.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs103 (GTK+ 2.24.8; 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_/K2lZf1Licrs7x_hyjO_l.K5"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 7c04f1f9-32e9-42f4-8e7d-609da5ee632f X-Archives-Hash: f98d3d60fa52269bdac1151aa388c927 --Sig_/K2lZf1Licrs7x_hyjO_l.K5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:56:17 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > I don't know where the 'blame' lies, but I've found myself > standardizing on MAKEOPTS=3D-j3, and PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=3D"--jobs > --load-average=3D<1.6*num_of_vCPU>" >=20 > (Yes, no explicit number of jobs. The newer portages are smart enough to > keep starting new jobs until the load number is reached) The problem I found with that is the ebuilds load the system lightly to start with, before they enter the compile phase, to portage starts dozens of parallel ebuilds, then the system gets completely bogged down when they start compiling. --=20 Neil Bothwick If Microsoft made cars: "The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before deploying." --Sig_/K2lZf1Licrs7x_hyjO_l.K5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk7SxeQACgkQum4al0N1GQPD5ACfQljqFQKNbmRdvxg0xXoIYWuE /7YAn0VAB33LgMlpAKkbGpRlB2gddQyJ =NCNC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/K2lZf1Licrs7x_hyjO_l.K5--