On Monday, May 30, 2016 08:57:01 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > What the...? > > Do you have every package there is installed? The worst updates I > > have seen > > are only 40-50 packages. 403 being 25% implies around 1600 - 1700 > > packages. > > Actually that seems about right, but why are you getting that many > > updates? You > > may have maladjusted USE flags or keywords to make portage think that many > > need an update. I'm running with ~amd64 set and I check updates once > > a day. > > Well, I'm running some stupid number theory code that uses 110% of my > cpu and ram,
If it's stupid, why waste CPU and RAM on it? Or is it only stupid because you don't understand it? Just like, in your opinion, Linux is stupid because you don't understand it? > and my web browsers are CPU hogs, so it's been 6wks/month > since last update. Where do you live that you have 6 weeks in a month? > So right now I'm using the -30% of my cpu remaining > to run e-builds. =P (205/250 atm...) Guess I was right, number theory is too difficult. Percentages especially... -- Joost
