Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-10-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Is there a portage option that will limit the number of cores used by emerge? For instance, in a chroot on a 12 core machine I want to limit emerge to not using more than 3 cores? If possible, I'd also like to limit the total disk bandwidth consumption during emerge. For instance, when

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Is there a portage option that will limit the number of cores used by emerge? For instance, in a chroot on a 12 core machine I want to limit emerge to not using more than 3 cores? If possible, I'd also like to limit the total disk bandwidth consumption during

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote:    Is there a portage option that will limit the number of cores used by emerge? For instance, in a chroot on a 12 core machine I want to limit emerge to not using more than 3 cores? On my machine, even if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a portage option that will limit the number of cores used by emerge? For instance, in a chroot on a 12 core machine I want to limit emerge to not using more than 3 cores? On

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   Is there a portage option that will limit the number of cores used by emerge? For instance, in a chroot on a 12 core machine I want to limit emerge to not using more than 3 cores?   If possible, I'd also like to

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   Is there a portage option that will limit the number of cores used by emerge? For instance, in a chroot on a 12 core machine I

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a portage option that will limit the number of cores used by emerge? For instance, in a chroot on a 12 core machine I want to limit emerge to not using more than 3 cores? If

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, this is interesting: root@fireball # emerge -1av kate ionice: bad prio class -3  * PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND returned 1  * See the make.conf(5) man page for PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND usage instructions. When I went to copy

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, this is interesting: root@fireball # emerge -1av kate ionice: bad prio class -3 * PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND returned 1 * See the make.conf(5) man page for PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND usage instructions.

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:15:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: If your MAKEOPTS is -j3 then it's not going to use more than 3 cores at a time but it will touch all 12 cores throughout the process because of the normal load balancing. If you want it to use only 3 specific cores, you would need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:15:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: If your MAKEOPTS is -j3 then it's not going to use more than 3 cores at a time but it will touch all 12 cores throughout the process because of the normal load

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Paul Hartman
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