On Nov 28, 2011 12:35 PM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >>    MAKEOPTS=-j <2*N> -l <1.6*N)
> >>    PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average<1.6*N>"
> >> a try.
>
> > Make sure that make supports non-integer values for -l, though.
>
> I rounded up to 13.

Shouldn't you be rounding down, instead? That said, as long as the number
falls between 1.6*N and 1.8*N (see my previous post), nothing should blow
up. Well, not spectacularly, at least :-)

BTW, FYI, --load-average accepts non-integer values.

Rgds,