On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 08:34:29AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:01:30 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Running MAKEOPTS="-j1" as default on a multi-core processor seems an > > > awful waste of resources, unless it is needed for something else, in > > > which case I don't run emerge at all. > > > > Running around for a few hours trying to replicate an unreplicatable > > build failure is even more of a waste. > > That depends on the number of cores you have. On a dual core system this > may well be true, although I'd dispute even that. > > % cat /etc/portage/package.env/* | grep -c -e j4 -e j1 > 4 > > Four packages out of the 1730 installed on this computer require special > treatment, and all of them build with -j4.
Seeing as how even my older machines are dual core, I'll bump it -j2. I'm still not totally clear on "load-average". Should I set... MAKEOPTS="-j2 --load-average=2" ...on a dual core machine? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
