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 1PiawE-0006PV-Qd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:07:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15D30E0B81 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:07:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA499E0827 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:53:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws8 with SMTP id 8so1080290vws.40 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:53:07 -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=SJnZh7N9YD9gSLlXYBBOExagJirv9XS0ySz5SFqC0Dk=; b=F5PC/Xn/5bDLF3u6scCen8yu9YaxCWCZT044To3D6B2kXZt/f3i5LxuAOcjyLY1ziI tiDeRECGW0hkLJj+7PdvSbIYAetfQpdwhWpenIQauIzTYyDlYI5E3iAKIQSN5a+FKlu9 kWPy+XRjqkCVInbsyjE/b0bc1tznheAhTeykY= 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=R/PBnZ4gr4R0LnaeysXuvAvFrsPhBlxCZ2Uac0dUjFxisG5MRL/gp3PuVNP523x7/1 tz1aYAtXT0KQrIvFEOlb4ke6XEyw2P5mwg7R0M9U7IuNAcUQjgWAT5cDa+gATCKT1YsW nqRiayWQ4k1IK0WIfDLob2/HjR4czhCbfXfX4= Received: by 10.220.187.75 with SMTP id cv11mr426507vcb.77.1296168787273; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:53:07 -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 ft27sm10606879vbb.18.2011.01.27.14.53.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:53:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D41F750.9020700@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:53:04 -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: <20110127140525.GA4844@ksp.sk> <201101271512.50141.joost@antarean.org> <20110127181325.GA26616@ksp.sk> <4D41CA78.6020109@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 06b3854c307a29e240a0abb8b95e270d Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/27/2011 09:41 PM, Dale wrote: >> I noticed the same thing with mine. It used a LOT of ram. I have 4Gbs >> and it was up to about 3Gbs at one point and using some swap as well. >> I'm hoping to max out to 16Gbs as soon as I can. May upgrade to a 6 core >> CPU too. >> >> I wonder how much faster it would be if the work directory is put on >> tmpfs? With 16Gbs, that should work even for OOo. >> > > Btw, if you're using more instances than the amount of CPUs, the > result will be slow-down. > > With the default kernel scheduler, best if amount of CPUs + 1. (On a > 4-core, that's -j5). > I just used -j with no number. It worked fine and I played Solitaire and checked my email while it was running. The only thing I noticed was it using swap. That could slow things down but otherwise, it worked fine. I do have the nice and ionice settings in make.conf tho. That helps a lot for sure. Without those, it would likely slow down a lot. Dale :-) :-)