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 1RYREU-00036B-R1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:49:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B6EE21C279; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 23:48:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D2321C0DE for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 23:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AE41B400E for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 23:47:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.797 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.797 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.606, BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.201, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id aYKA46_0rdvN for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 23:47:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B640E1B4021 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 23:47:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RYRCr-0008OX-8G for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:47:21 +0100 Received: from c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.179.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:47:21 +0100 Received: from reader by c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:47:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: --jobs Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:46:15 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87r50g0wu0.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87vcps0z6d.fsf@newsguy.com> <20111208010856.2eae7db6@rohan.example.com> 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-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9yRe8uZAYu/yEWxjJXzXXzoE9UI= X-Archives-Salt: 19cffc11-6848-47d3-bea4-0ef2c05df6e9 X-Archives-Hash: d64294d9798a750c2131b69f3e0221e3 Alan McKinnon writes: > On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:55:38 -0600 > Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Under the newest portage with x86~, if I run `emerge -vuD world' >> should I see something besides: >> >> >>> Jobs 0 of 71 complete, 1 running [...] >> >> Shouldn't there be more jobs running? >> >> (This is on gentoo installed as guest on win7 using Vbox) > > What is the first job? > > Assuming that the system is set up to run parallel jobs, you have 71 > updates. That's quite a lot. Maybe the first one is some really basic > package in @system upon which the other 70 depend (directly or > indirectly). Portage must complete the first fully in that case, then > proceed. > > Or, that first job is portage itself. It makes sense that portage > updates should be done in isolation. Now 38 are installed and it has never shown more than 1 running. Appears to be doing them all one by one. I'm not sure what you mean about system being setup for parallel jobs. Isn't the new default emerge to run that way? Isn't that why we now have this line about jobs and load that completely removes the old -v ouput? This is a brand new install, and I've changed very little. I've done nothing consciously to effect how many jobs are to be run. If its only going to do the jobs one by one, then why cover the -v output? I'd sooner disable this new behavior but it appears there is no across the board way to do that. Maybe a function like: emg () { emerge --quite-build=n $@; } Would have that effect. I can't see where it would be losing anything since emerge is doing 1 job at a time anyway. By the way, are these heavy or unusual loads: 1.10 1.17 1.14 Its an i7 processor but gentoo is running as vbox guest.