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 typically >> >> emerge -DuN -j2 @world >> >> so I think that's about right, or would hope it is anyway. If you see >> a problem please let me know. > > The -j2 on emerge means it'll run 2 makes at once, and each make is > getting -j3, so it'll use (up to) 6 cores at once. You probably want > to just stop using -j option for emerge entirely and stick to the > MAKEOPTS one. > >
I wondered about that. Thanks. It's back to single packages at a time in the chroot. Cheers, Mark
