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