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 1RUgd1-0005zr-Di for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:26:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6F4821C02F; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:26:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail0177.smtp25.com (mail0177.smtp25.com [75.126.84.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6761321C02F for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:25:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-96-247-198-116.clppva.fios.verizon.net [96.247.198.116]) by d-out-001.smtp25.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id pARFPVtg029273 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:25:31 -0500 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pARFPRad024823 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:25:31 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l In-reply-to: <4ED25103.5040408@gmail.com> References: <201111270927.57294.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <19356.1322390348@ccs.covici.com> <4ED217E3.7030202@gmail.com> <19375.1322405257@ccs.covici.com> <4ED25103.5040408@gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to Dale message dated "Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:02:27 -0600." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.3.3 Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:25:27 -0500 Message-ID: <24821.1322407527@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-pARFPVtg029273 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 X-Archives-Salt: 5de53a53-7477-43aa-9ec8-6892aeebcd60 X-Archives-Hash: 5d09fd330e0e03833203c2f546c59b76 Dale wrote: > covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Dale wrote: > > > >> covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > >>> Mick wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Saturday 26 Nov 2011 15:22:15 Michael Mol wrote: > >>>>> I just wanted to share an experience I had today with optimizing parallel > >>>>> builds after discovering "-l" for Make... > >>>>> > >>>>> I've got a little more tweaking I still want to do, but this is pretty > >>>>> awesome... > >>>>> > >>>>> http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/optimizing-parallel-builds/ > >>>>> > >>>>> ZZ > >>>> Thanks for sharing! How do you determine the optimum value for -l? > >>> How do you get emerge not to display number of jobs and load average -- > >>> I only want to compile one at a time -- much safer that way and it is > >>> doing that, but now it displays all that load average and how many jobs, > >>> etc. -- any way to get rid of that display? > >>> > >> Thank Zac for that. He thinks he knows what you want. ;-) > >> Apparently not huh? > >> > >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-901858.html > >> > >> Just add --quiet-build=n to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in make.conf and it > >> will do it the old way. > >> > >> Hope that helps. > > Thanks much. Don't these people have anything to do -- like fix ebuild > > bugs? Very strange indeed. > > > > Well, they had the poll but the dev thinks he knows better. So, this > is Gentoo and the devs rule the roost here. It's pretty much been > that way since I started using Gentoo back in 2003. I don't expect it > to change and you shouldn't either. ;-) Just do like I do, when > they change something, override it with your own setting. It works > for me. Yep, that is the nice thing about gentoo. Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com