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 1PiU2C-0000IB-M3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:45:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E458BE099C; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:43:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0DDE099C for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:43:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxc38 with SMTP id 38so82731vxc.40 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:43:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=BWBDcWxMl+gDVbQq9V5WcitQdaCiyr2bC9H/X1rwXJo=; b=v2RWeUpQLJ2NrV01Ih4dtImzB0gVJaw8VgIHj7T2ndNgRq228VVNf3hgfxTDfG8dHz BbuHKh9BRGoaYl7lQeJVxi8+MBhEJTLrWAi1Aoy7PvXsNxR6ra4MSHAd51uYEd2DK507 shdM5eev7hrOzY8xtMUOGJEAepE+DCQ0oKB3Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=YHXaYIAH90IbtURmyT7O7F0rtLcHcElGqDINtHRH9DkDwJRTfaE2ZZH1vyQ2pAS1Hb emAAUxHB/Dlrv8k+642YHS9g+5obYC7rnrTTe9gsx8bvkqE3kYr1oeMtN2BDy5FyZkBN CMOVGf3qfzG974fkqk6LKvNu8/xPyJAhqoplw= Received: by 10.220.190.5 with SMTP id dg5mr296761vcb.115.1296143037046; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:43:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-95-40.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.95.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b26sm10315718vby.13.2011.01.27.07.43.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:43:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D4192BA.8000408@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:43:54 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101212 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies References: <20110127145339.30a0b4f7@digimed.co.uk> <201101271715.37028.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201101271715.37028.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d20b4b50a43b3f5ff05689aabffdd3ad Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:09 on Thursday 27 January 2011, Nikos > Chantziaras did opine thusly: > > >> Given the amount of time unpack/configure/install of most packages needs >> (very short), my observation is that it would not be worth it. >> > KDE. > > unpack/configure/install takes up a significant amount of time for KDE > > > Putting reply in just one post this time. This is a discussion now and not a technical problem. The package that failed had nothing to do with it building more than one package at a time. For some reason, it didn't have one of the patches downloaded. I guess it was a failure between here and where the mirror is. When I restarted the emerge, it found it and no problems from there. It would have done the same thing if I wasn't using -j is the point here. Tthis was a KDE upgrade, it saved a LOT of time. Most of the time only a couple cores are really working especially when they are smaller packages. When using the -j option, all 4 cores were running and was pretty busy all the time. At one time, it was doing >20 packages at once. I also noticed the hard drive light was pretty steady too. All in all, using the -j option seems to have saved a lot of time here. This is a fairly new install so I can recall how long it took to install KDE the last time. This was much faster. Just reporting a real world experience here. I wish I had got a 6 core CPU now for sure. Maybe later. Dale :-) :-)