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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:30:59 -0500
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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 Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2011 3:21 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote=
:

[snip]

>> Sweet; I didn't know about Portage's --load-average; I'll definitely
>> switch to that instead of -j. Load-driven make plus load-driven
>> portage should work beautifully on my system.
>>
>> I'll steal your 1.6 factor, and give:
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0MAKEOPTS=3D-j <2*N> -l <1.6*N)
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=3D"--jobs --load-average<1.6*N>"
>> a try.

> Make sure that make supports non-integer values for -l, though.

I rounded up to 13.
--=20
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