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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l
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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.


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