Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop wonky again

[Daniel Pielmeier <billie@gentoo.org>]

Am 5. Januar 2024 23:51:39 UTC schrieb Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>:
>Hello list,
>
>I've just had some strange output from genlop on my 16-thread i5 box, thus:
>
># genlop -t libreoffice | /bin/grep minute
>       merge time: 37 minutes and 38 seconds.
>       merge time: 52 minutes and 59 seconds.
>       merge time: 46 minutes and 17 seconds.
>
># genlop -c
>
> Currently merging 11 out of 11
>
> * app-office/libreoffice-7.5.9.2
>
>       current merge time: 4 minutes and 3 seconds.
>       ETA: 1 hour, 4 minutes and 24 seconds.
>
>### Then, once the update finished:
>
>#  genlop -t libreoffice | /bin/grep minute
>       merge time: 37 minutes and 38 seconds.
>       merge time: 52 minutes and 59 seconds.
>       merge time: 46 minutes and 17 seconds.
>       merge time: 38 minutes and 40 seconds.
>
>I know genlop is, shall we say, not perfect, but how can it be so grossly 
>wrong as that?
>
>I have this in make.conf, and it hasn't changed since I built the machine:
>
>grep '\-j' /etc/portage/make.conf
>EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=12
>MAKEOPTS="-j12 -l12"
>

There are not by chance binary merges which took less than a minute? That might explain the differences.
What is the output wihout the grep or filtering by merge time instead. 

-- 
Best regards
Daniel