From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:30:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiAAcD3n54=LAdcFfYRJCEy9-K=HKkg1yBwW3RvcjbLmTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111127232108.08cbacfd@digimed.co.uk>
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:56:17 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
>> I don't know where the 'blame' lies, but I've found myself
>> standardizing on MAKEOPTS=-j3, and PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs
>> --load-average=<1.6*num_of_vCPU>"
>>
>> (Yes, no explicit number of jobs. The newer portages are smart enough to
>> keep starting new jobs until the load number is reached)
>
> The problem I found with that is the ebuilds load the system lightly to
> start with, before they enter the compile phase, to portage starts dozens
> of parallel ebuilds, then the system gets completely bogged down when
> they start compiling.
I did notice that, but it settles back down *very* quickly with the -l
parameter to make.
--
:wq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-28 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-26 15:22 [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l Michael Mol
2011-11-26 15:34 ` Alex Schuster
2011-11-26 15:51 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-26 16:03 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-12-19 19:58 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-12-19 20:05 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-26 15:35 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-27 9:27 ` Mick
2011-11-27 10:09 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-27 17:56 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-27 20:16 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-27 20:42 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-27 20:51 ` Alex Schuster
2011-11-28 0:42 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-27 20:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-28 1:06 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-28 5:30 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-28 5:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-27 23:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-28 0:54 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-28 1:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Jack Byer
2011-11-28 1:35 ` Dale
2011-11-28 2:16 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-28 7:02 ` Dale
2011-11-28 4:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Mol
2011-11-28 5:13 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-28 5:27 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-28 9:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-28 13:36 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-28 16:36 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-29 11:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-29 13:47 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-29 15:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-29 18:50 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-28 4:30 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2011-11-27 10:39 ` covici
2011-11-27 10:52 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-27 10:58 ` Dale
2011-11-27 14:47 ` covici
2011-11-27 15:02 ` Dale
2011-11-27 15:25 ` covici
2011-11-27 17:26 ` Michael Hampicke
2011-11-27 17:46 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-27 22:07 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-27 23:13 ` Dale
2011-11-28 4:28 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-28 5:26 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-28 9:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-28 10:22 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-28 13:03 ` Jorge Martínez López
2011-11-28 13:26 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-28 18:51 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-28 18:54 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-28 23:53 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-10 4:35 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-27 15:16 ` Michael Mol
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