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 1Pipio-0008RO-G1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:54:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDD8EE090F; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:53:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D617E090F for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:53:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yib17 with SMTP id 17so1791381yib.40 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:53:21 -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=CwyNnwulrrhwByf3U2jxDt2ZAyYrmnzFx7Ao/T2m78U=; b=OwFPqPFmlF3Ol5hMhI1MJ2fcqdqMIyH1KB45WK+TBesDexXYuEkItjwGRSqD6iFZCM Ui6yg1BCVzaTXasFt/t+y10HeEqGSIDZ3CRCDjf+klq+TReOcHo8Yam/ISKasiwjkKmN IYmodmGXcGtmOSf/9/W2l4fzdLULN4UZK8irw= 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+tfgE/ugDbY9RCwUMnEkTbRGlW8KWIaBZTu6eid5WrpcCCEbF0rdtXQx9iIxKjacF pNkgGgNEfbnbWfXuXwuareqWSchrEyaJ7BWnOdmUXfEKPZURcbKgpjB1fV4hBq8epmw9 yIc1TvINGXfErhrdG4Pevhsb1hTW9biS6Jboo= Received: by 10.236.108.178 with SMTP id q38mr5460696yhg.81.1296226400911; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:53:20 -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 f73sm2655758yhc.4.2011.01.28.06.53.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:53:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D42D85C.9040502@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:53:16 -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: <4D41F750.9020700@gmail.com> <201101280816.54317.joost@antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <201101280816.54317.joost@antarean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 200b5c821b18892350b927f605b74dc5 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday 27 January 2011 23:53:04 Dale wrote: > >> 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. >> > Which settings do you use for that? > > -- > Joost > > This is my settings at the moment: PORTAGE_NICENESS=5 PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c -3 -p \${PID}" MAKEOPTS="-j6" FEATURES="buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch --keep-going" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --backtrack=30" That works very well here for me. Rig, AMD 4 core CPU at 3.2Ghz, 4Gbs of ram at DDR3 1600 and SATA 3.0Gbs/sec. Your mileage may vary tho. Dale :-) :-)