Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is 'MAKEOPTS=--jobs --load-average=5' silly?

2013-03-30 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Another interesting point about this load control thing is that if the package uses a build system which doesn't support load control, load will surge high. It is currently happening with me while installing Mongo, because the build system scons doesn't have load control feature. On Mar 29, 2013

[gentoo-user] Re: Is 'MAKEOPTS=--jobs --load-average=5' silly?

2013-03-29 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:54:37 + Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 29 March 2013, at 03:36, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: ... I can only imagine he was pointing out that you have a single CPU with four cores in it. You're right, of course. I should have said /cores/.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is 'MAKEOPTS=--jobs --load-average=5' silly?

2013-03-29 Thread Dale
»Q« wrote: On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:54:37 + Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 29 March 2013, at 03:36, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: ... I can only imagine he was pointing out that you have a single CPU with four cores in it. You're right, of course. I should have said

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is 'MAKEOPTS=--jobs --load-average=5' silly?

2013-03-29 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/29/2013 01:46 PM, Dale wrote: »Q« wrote: On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:54:37 + Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 29 March 2013, at 03:36, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: ... I can only imagine he was pointing out that you have a single CPU with four cores in it. You're right,