J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Friday, December 30, 2016 01:57:53 AM Dale wrote:
>>
>> My settings:
>>
>> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --backtrack=100 --keep-going -v -j8
>> --quiet-build=n -1"
>>
>> I forgot I had that set to 8 jobs. Wonder why I did that? Given your
>> experience, I want to get more ram and more cores.
> More RAM, yes. More cores aren't always necessary.
> With regards to your options, the " --load-average .... " setting is
> important
> to keep the system responsive.
>
> With mine, it is possible to have 12*12 GCC-processes running. The load-
> average prevents that from happening.
>
> --
> Joost
>
>
Mine stays very responsive until it runs out of memory. Once it starts
using swap, it gets slow. Things still work but it requires a lot of
patience. Here are some more of my settings:
PORTAGE_NICENESS=5
PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
I'll most likely upgrade the ram first. That's the thing that I know is
running out. The CPU is just a matter of those occasions when more
cores could/might be useful, which may be a lot or may not.
One just always drools over the latest greatest stuff tho. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
