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 1RVLZu-0004Jf-BR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:10:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ECC6621C03B; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:10:00 +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 F146E21C03B for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:08:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7232980452 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:08:54 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:08:54 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l Message-ID: <20111129110854.62d1033b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4ED3B878.9090301@xunil.at> References: <201111270927.57294.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20111127232108.08cbacfd@digimed.co.uk> <20111128092756.69cec4df@digimed.co.uk> <4ED3B878.9090301@xunil.at> 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_/xA9S+N.a/YFjpYRTPzBhHrw"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 9a03ad33-a021-452b-8360-78f6011d4862 X-Archives-Hash: 18af0900f504fe7422804ca2d629138a --Sig_/xA9S+N.a/YFjpYRTPzBhHrw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:36:08 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Neil, you run a core-i7-2600 as well ... what is your current > best-practise with that CPU, concerning the values of N and -l ... ? With the cooling system I currently have, I don't like to push it too much (a new watercooler should arrive tomorrow), but MAKEOPTS=3D"-j16 -l10" appears to be a definite improvement over the old -j8 with no -l. --=20 Neil Bothwick Scrotum is a small planet near Uranus. True/False? --Sig_/xA9S+N.a/YFjpYRTPzBhHrw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk7UvUsACgkQum4al0N1GQNPmQCg1rDsFBnhAxrvGPXARbisHgcq zjAAoKNhmCXsg0GkWKAe/iKp3Nrt2Qm/ =HvGo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/xA9S+N.a/YFjpYRTPzBhHrw--