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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with MAKEOPTS -j
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:54:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E55FFAC.5020407@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5503597.AgC5OBZUS3@eve>

Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> On Thursday, August 25, 2011 02:37:21 PM Pandu Poluan wrote:
>    
>> Have anyone experienced problems with MAKEOPTS?
>>
>> I have a quad-core system, so I put in "-j5". But that resulted in
>> emerge fails for binutils and ppl. I have to change it to "-j3" before
>> ppl can be emerged, even "-j1" before binutils can be emerged.
>>
>> Anyone experiencing the same?
>>      
> Yes, I used to have emerge -j and make -j set up limited to a load-level.
>
> I've changed it to make -j5 myself with emerge without "-j"
>
> It isn't just the ones you listed, I always have a lot of failed emerges that
> work ok when limiting the -j.
>
> --
> Joost
>
>
>    

This is one of those times when things work for me.  I have mine set to 
-j5 for my quad core and it seems to work fine.  I have read where 
others have the problems to tho.  Is my luck changing perhaps?

Just wanted to chime in with one that works.

Dale

:-)  :-)



  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-25  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-25  7:37 [gentoo-user] Problems with MAKEOPTS -j Pandu Poluan
2011-08-25  7:46 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-25  7:54   ` Dale [this message]
2011-08-25 12:06 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-25 13:16   ` Dale
2011-08-25 13:33     ` Michael Mol
2011-08-25 13:38     ` Peter Humphrey
2011-08-25 14:46       ` Dale
2011-08-25 14:18 ` Paul Hartman

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