From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A5E52158089 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:28:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBC8F2BC117; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:28:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C1102BC0F5 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:28:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01a.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qiZqR-0007TW-Vz for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:28:48 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:28:47 +0100 Message-ID: <5718815.DvuYhMxLoT@wstn> In-Reply-To: References: <4531844.LvFx2qVVIh@wstn> <1983362.usQuhbGJ8B@wstn> 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: d39cfb41-d2fe-47f0-a900-d30b655e8786 X-Archives-Hash: 6933cc2c9a5b263ac20121322dcd77d3 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. -- Regards, Peter.