From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G2Jwi-0002mc-AA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:39:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6H3akji008715; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:36:46 GMT Received: from mtaout-w.tc.umn.edu (mtaout-w.tc.umn.edu [160.94.160.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6H3UI6C019184 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:30:18 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.107] (CPE-65-29-61-136.mn.res.rr.com [65.29.61.136]) by mtaout-w.tc.umn.edu with ESMTP for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:30:18 -0500 (CDT) X-Umn-Remote-Mta: [N] CPE-65-29-61-136.mn.res.rr.com [65.29.61.136] #+TS+AU+HN Message-ID: <44BB044A.8090803@cs.umn.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:30:18 -0500 From: Jeremy Olexa User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060608) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compile question References: <44BAFB5A.6090802@gt.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <44BAFB5A.6090802@gt.rr.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: adf91e7a-7dc3-4066-9bb0-ede4b789aeda X-Archives-Hash: ba41eaab141638f8f7aaea019a46ac70 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I have an AMD 64x2 with MAKEOPTS set to -j3. > > I have noticed that some compiles (glibc for example) will use the > system to the fullest. top reports %CPU near 0%. Other compiles, such > as openoffice seem to use only half as much cpu time. For this top > reported consistently near 50%. > > So I'm wondering if the openoffice compile used only one of the amd > cores. Do some of the emerges ignore the MAKEOPTS setting? Or is this > an upstream issue with the compile not using threads? > > Tony Tony, Some ebuilds filter out MAKEOPTS="-jX" because the makefile(?) is not written correctly to compile with more than one concurrent compile process. According to the OOo ebuild, -jX is not filtered, so that is not the case. Also, you may have checked the CPU usage when it was extracting the tarball, obviously the choke point here would be the HD, not the CPU. Just some extra info for you, I am not the ebuild expert. HTH - -- Jeremy Olexa (olexa@cs.umn.edu) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEuwRJFN7pD9kMi/URAsCSAJwMXoPA1fqg5CHkJxbId0OYsCXEcACeKXGc r9FcluQ/XA0fRm8nBzTzmK4= =goWq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list