From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5EE138010 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FA81E07C5; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:44:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3C96AE0782 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:44:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newlap.localdomain (ool-182de1a5.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.225.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r2Q2iK30002502 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:44:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by newlap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E7469A0063; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:44:19 -0400 (EDT) From: gottlieb@nyu.edu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"' silly? References: <87sj3jw63e.fsf@nyu.edu> <20130325222558.5f1d4871@digimed.co.uk> <87ppymuc5v.fsf@nyu.edu> <51510B1F.9090200@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:44:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <51510B1F.9090200@gmail.com> (Dale's message of "Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:42:39 -0500") Message-ID: <87fvziribg.fsf@nyu.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: 2d2535b2-05a7-4d15-abf2-e3cbf9a11926 X-Archives-Hash: a14c80339c5a554ae2e5db24ebff2dc9 On Mon, Mar 25 2013, Dale wrote: > gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote: >> Also I am somewhat surprised you can run libreoffice with >> MAKEOPTS="-j4". I seem to remember that being one of the ones I had to >> degrade. Thanks for the tip, I will use it. allan > > I update libreoffice whenever it needs it and I have this setting: > > MAKEOPTS="-j16" > > It hasn't failed me in a long time, except for the time I ran out of > space. Maybe things have been fixed so it can build with that setting > where it couldn't before? May want to try it sometime when you got time > on your hands. > > Dale Thanks. My data may well be old. allan