On 2020-06-11, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:46:23 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > You may want to experiment by setting env variables for Chromium to >> > restrict --jobs and --load-average so as to keep broadly within the >> > constraints of the available RAM. >> >> If it's only once or twice a month, it's not worth fussing with. I >> swear there have been a couple times in the past few months when it >> got updated multiple times within a week... > > So it's not once or twice a month ;-) > > Oftentimes, it's a rebuild rather than an update, triggered by one of its > dependencies. Adding two lines to /etc/portage to sets -j2 for this one > ebuild is hardly a fuss and well worth the effort.
The fuss is the experimentation to find out if -j2 is faster than -j1 or not. -- Grant
