On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, my bad for confusing the two. Currently make.conf in the chroot says: > > MAKEOPTS="-j3" > > and when I run emerge in the chroot it's typically > > emerge -DuN -j2 @world > > so I think that's about right, or would hope it is anyway. If you see > a problem please let me know.
The -j2 on emerge means it'll run 2 makes at once, and each make is getting -j3, so it'll use (up to) 6 cores at once. You probably want to just stop using -j option for emerge entirely and stick to the MAKEOPTS one.
