From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1113138010 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:50:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A419E0C63; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:50:22 +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 791C0E0C3E for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7EA5A8008D for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:50:19 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:50:14 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"' silly? Message-ID: <20130329125014.7371575b@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201303291237.13995.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <87sj3jw63e.fsf@nyu.edu> <20130327181622.GA29780@waltdnes.org> <201303281403.27495.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201303291237.13995.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0-156-gf9f793 (GTK+ 2.24.17; 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_/xCGMTrGtf.t9RMA7E+lPoeb"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ea9a267f-4461-4c0d-a0cb-c012232ac85b X-Archives-Hash: b072d91cc5b98047964add1ace6f3e75 --Sig_/xCGMTrGtf.t9RMA7E+lPoeb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: >=20 > MAKEOPTS=3D"-j5 -l12.8" > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=3D"--quiet-build=3Dn" 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=3D1 that means your CPU spends a lot of time idling. --=20 Neil Bothwick This is as bad as it can get - but don't bet on it. --Sig_/xCGMTrGtf.t9RMA7E+lPoeb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFVjgsACgkQum4al0N1GQM5rACgkbBqHTZzTwwhgr+Lv6LSOFzc DpUAnjxLWdv+zl8kdUlAt184OKsoeueY =Vz1C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/xCGMTrGtf.t9RMA7E+lPoeb--