Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Monday, 18 September 2023 17:13:04 BST Alan McKinnon wrote:

> I did read all those but no matter how you move things around you still
> have only X resources available all the time.
> Whether you just let emerge do it's thing or try get it to do big packages
> on their own, everything is still going to use the same number of cpu
> cycles overall and you will save nothing.

That isn't the point. The point is that it takes twice as long, and it wastes 
the machine's resources while I twiddle my thumbs waiting for it.

> If webkit-gtk is the only big package, have you considered:
> 
> emerge -1v webkit-gtk && emerge -avuND @world?

Of course.

> What you have is not a portage problem. It is a orthodox parallelism
> problem, and I think you are thinking your constraint is unique in the work
> - it isn't.

No, I think my problem has not been tackled by the portage developers.

> With parallelism, trying to fiddle single nodes to improve things overall
> never really works out.

See above.

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Regards,
Peter.