From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MXyLE-0000v5-S3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:16:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9C88E0538; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAAD7E0538 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 631D565224 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:16:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.525 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.525 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.074, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id j1GX9ko5TflH for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C77866E24 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MXyKz-000432-Q4 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:16:29 +0000 Received: from athedsl-373575.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.11.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:16:29 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-373575.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:16:29 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: make.conf MAKEOPTS=-j2 Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:16:18 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20090802092037.6b380c87@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20090802172340.09916a8b@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <20090802133741.3094df61@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20090803121137.GA28457@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-373575.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090730 Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: <20090803121137.GA28457@waltdnes.org> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 4290dc31-b2c3-4732-8286-ab5ce5ca4254 X-Archives-Hash: 6c6dd99328cbeb2ff39d571cf6449788 On 08/03/2009 03:11 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > >> Note that by doing so you will be using -j1 for every future version >> of duma. That means, if the problem gets fixed, you'll still be >> using -j1. > > Actually, I put -j1 into my make.conf after being bitten by -j2 a few > times. It doesn't slow down the emerge that much, and doesn't slow down > the compiled program at all. And the big thing is that it has probably > saved me from wasting time trying to track down weird emerge failures. Well, that's you. -j2 needs only 1/2 of the time to emerge things on this machine, and -j4 only 1/4 on a 4 core machine. So my advice for others is to not take Walter's advice and use -j1 because "it doesn't slow down the emerge that much". It can slow it down. Up to four times slower.