Duncan wrote:
"--jobs=10 --keep-going --load-average=15"

For a dual-dual-core setup, a load average of 4.0 is "fully loaded". Anything higher than that and you're just causing jobs to queue up unnecessarily and your system to "thrash".

have MAKEOPTS="-j -l20" so it's not going to be low all the time).

Same thing here. Also, why would you specify different --load-average values in these two places?

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer             Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator

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