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 1RUq99-0003E3-KX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:36:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7E3921C102; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:36:19 +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 6D9B9E0529 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:35:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbbff1 with SMTP id ff1so6547185vbb.40 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:35:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; 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; bh=DXaJ4PB/15p8o/X3yFDpMIUh7EWbqCQ/zUzb/tfexBE=; b=S73kf7Ejo30NogFWlf3acYmoST/lRPf7gXq9pFxeHSnc1Gzla0Pup/S5KzJYby/Wkb dFbULATwsK2TMe01bbeEAcGHQmO+zbPsrbfmDqntB5GW5msaGpTWSz5TB7CWp0ObCiP8 4S9rVZHTmSDvuC5S5H6wv6WlEidHeRY9Sk1oY= Received: by 10.52.26.9 with SMTP id h9mr40847331vdg.99.1322444123907; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-115-63.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.115.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b10sm6871027vdf.7.2011.11.27.17.35.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:35:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED2E559.2040500@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:35:21 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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: emerge -j, make -j and make -l References: <201111270927.57294.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20111127232108.08cbacfd@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 963e6dbe-3633-48cb-a873-d8fbbf0a9727 X-Archives-Hash: 89dd1a39efa58b5da870483165435834 Jack Byer wrote: > It would be nice if there were some way to mark particular packages > that should never be compiled in parallel (like the trick for using a > using a separate, non-tmpfs build directory for large packages). The > "load-explosion" you describe is bad enough with regular packages but > when firefox, xulrunner, chromium and libreoffice all decide to start > compiling at the same time it turns into a complete nightmare. I think it has that already. I have noticed several times that mine will only be working on one package and have a lot of packages left to update. When that single package is done, it loads up several and does them at the same time. Something tells emerge not to run them at the same time and I assume it is in the ebuild somewhere. I have to have tmpfs in use when LOo comes up for a compile. I have more memory than I have space on /var. If I don't have portages work directory on tmpfs, the compile fills up /var and dies. Ironic that what works for one fails for another. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!