From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"' silly?
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:50:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130329125014.7371575b@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201303291237.13995.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:36:56 +0000, Mick wrote:
> I've got a first generation i7 and this is what I have set up in my
> make.conf:
>
> MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l12.8"
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
n is the default for quiet-build if --jobs is set to 1, or unspecified.
But using a higher value will give you faster updates. The MAKEOPTS
setting has no effect during the preparation and installation stages of
an ebuild, and with --jobs=1 that means your CPU spends a lot of time
idling.
--
Neil Bothwick
This is as bad as it can get - but don't bet on it.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-25 20:57 [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"' silly? gottlieb
2013-03-25 22:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-26 2:29 ` gottlieb
2013-03-26 2:42 ` Dale
2013-03-26 2:44 ` gottlieb
2013-03-26 8:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-26 15:13 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-03-26 16:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-27 14:20 ` gottlieb
2013-03-27 14:37 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-03-27 18:16 ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-28 14:03 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-03-28 19:28 ` Stroller
2013-03-29 0:40 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-03-29 1:24 ` Mateusz Kowalczyk
2013-03-29 1:59 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-03-29 3:36 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-03-29 16:54 ` Stroller
2013-03-29 17:32 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2013-03-29 17:46 ` Dale
2013-03-29 18:05 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-30 9:45 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-03-29 12:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2013-03-29 12:50 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2013-03-26 3:01 ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-26 8:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-27 12:45 ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-25 22:27 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-03-25 22:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-26 20:58 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-03-26 21:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-27 18:54 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-03-28 1:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-26 2:23 ` gottlieb
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