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 1PiYHM-0006Mz-Ov for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:17:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40C5FE0B1C; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:15:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F93DE0B1C for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:15:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EFFE1B4055 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:15:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.875 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.875 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.276, BAYES_00=-2.599] 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 are+SAaQZ2TC for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:15:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169EF1B403F for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiYFJ-0003F6-2t for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:15:09 +0100 Received: from athedsl-377134.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.25.44]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:15:09 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-377134.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:15:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:15:02 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20110127140525.GA4844@ksp.sk> <201101271512.50141.joost@antarean.org> <20110127181325.GA26616@ksp.sk> <4D41CA78.6020109@gmail.com> 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@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-377134.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110126 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <4D41CA78.6020109@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8a38e2eba978cdbf2b6766158e011603 On 01/27/2011 09:41 PM, Dale wrote: > YoYo Siska wrote: >> Yes. >> It might not be perfect, but mostly it works pretty well. >> Once make started 10 or so process, which ate all my ram, because I >> forgot to reenable swap, when I was playing with something before that >> :) >> >> yoyo > > I noticed the same thing with mine. It used a LOT of ram. I have 4Gbs > and it was up to about 3Gbs at one point and using some swap as well. > I'm hoping to max out to 16Gbs as soon as I can. May upgrade to a 6 core > CPU too. > > I wonder how much faster it would be if the work directory is put on > tmpfs? With 16Gbs, that should work even for OOo. > Btw, if you're using more instances than the amount of CPUs, the result will be slow-down. With the default kernel scheduler, best if amount of CPUs + 1. (On a 4-core, that's -j5).