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 1RVSnb-0006bl-J7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:52:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF94C21C163; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com (postler.lichtfels.com [78.46.92.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3297921C111 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF0414B6F for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:50:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postler.lichtfels.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 28404-08 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:50:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from hiro.oops.intern (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8F68C14B6E for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:50:44 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4ED5298C.2050502@xunil.at> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:50:52 +0100 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111126 Thunderbird/8.0 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] emerge -j, make -j and make -l References: <201111270927.57294.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20111127232108.08cbacfd@digimed.co.uk> <20111128092756.69cec4df@digimed.co.uk> <4ED3B878.9090301@xunil.at> <20111129110854.62d1033b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <4ED4E285.5090801@xunil.at> <20111129153933.06cc5107@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111129153933.06cc5107@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2a X-Archives-Salt: 7cddfdf2-1b32-4374-923e-9c1a24f4feda X-Archives-Hash: 178cc1d8a395f71f1dad1199942d78a9 Am 29.11.2011 16:39, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > The trouble with --load-average in emerge is that it is only > checked as each ebuild is about to start, so you get the "load > explosion" mentioned previously when many ebuilds start and once > and then get into their compile phases. I'm using --jobs, with no > value, in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS and the -l10 for make seems to take > care of the load very nicely (sorry about the pun there). ok with me ;-) I now use: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs" MAKEOPTS="-j18 -l10" and that is rather fast, yes .... thanks ... I start to "feel" the potential of that new CPU, yes. Stefan