On Nov 28, 2011 12:35 PM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2011 3:21 AM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@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,
