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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l
From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently timing
>
> MAKEOPTS=3D"-j16 -l13"
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=3D"--jobs --load-average=3D13"
>
> with 493 packages (base plus X plus XFCE and chromium, and, of course,
> USE flags), but I'll start another timed run with
>
> MAKEOPTS=3D"-j16 -l8"
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=3D"--jobs --load-average=3D8"
>
> once that's finished. Last night, I tried with -j16 -l10, and that
> completed in 209 minutes, but that was still with the
> PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS typo, so that datapoint is mostly useless. This
> one has already taken about 240 minutes. At least it's finished
> building Chromium, now; I hope it doesn't still need to build gcc.
> It's at 488/493.
>
> (insert) Just finished:
>
> real =C2=A0 =C2=A0208m23.880s
> user =C2=A0 =C2=A0604m27.065s
> sys =C2=A0 =C2=A0 152m22.848s
>
> Apparently, I misremembered when I started it.
> (/insert)
>

MAKEOPTS=3D"-j16 -l8"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=3D"--jobs --load-average=3D8"

finished at

real    217m46.366s
user    588m22.397s
sys     149m15.283s

I'll probably set it to -l10 and leave it there; I need to start using
this box for things.

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