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From: gottlieb@nyu.edu
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"' silly?
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:57:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj3jw63e.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)

For a long time I have had in make.conf

EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=5"
MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"

(for previous processors the 5 was 3).

It seems that this configuration fails for several packages (or tickles
bugs in their ebuilds/Makefiles).

Lately whenever a build fails I change to

MAKEOPTS="--jobs=1"

and this very often "fixes" the problem.

It is not clear that any time saved by having jobs=5 compensates for
having to redo builds.  So my question is do people

1. keep jobs=1 in MAKEOPTS
2. have jobs=n in MAKEOPTS but degrade on error as I do
3. have jobs=n and file bugs when it fails.

thanks,
allan

PS I do not change EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS


             reply	other threads:[~2013-03-25 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-25 20:57 gottlieb [this message]
2013-03-25 22:25 ` [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"' silly? Neil Bothwick
2013-03-26  2:29   ` gottlieb
2013-03-26  2:42     ` Dale
2013-03-26  2:44       ` gottlieb
2013-03-26  8:34     ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-26 15:13       ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-03-26 16:58         ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-27 14:20           ` gottlieb
2013-03-27 14:37             ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-03-27 18:16               ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-28 14:03                 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-03-28 19:28                   ` Stroller
2013-03-29  0:40                     ` Peter Humphrey
2013-03-29  1:24                       ` Mateusz Kowalczyk
2013-03-29  1:59                         ` Peter Humphrey
2013-03-29  3:36                           ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-03-29 16:54                             ` Stroller
2013-03-29 17:32                               ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2013-03-29 17:46                                 ` Dale
2013-03-29 18:05                                   ` Michael Mol
2013-03-30  9:45                                     ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-03-29 12:36                   ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2013-03-29 12:50                     ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-26  3:01   ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-26  8:34     ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-27 12:45       ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-25 22:27 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-03-25 22:32   ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-26 20:58     ` Michael Hampicke
2013-03-26 21:40       ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-27 18:54         ` Michael Hampicke
2013-03-28  1:34           ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-26  2:23   ` gottlieb

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