On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:36:23 +0000, Mick wrote: > With each job taking up to 1.2G of RAM you can quickly exhaust > available memory on older PCs and swapping can start grinding the box > to a halt. Since the move to profile 17.0 I found my old laptop comes > to its knees on compiling larger packages like Chromium. If you also > find swapping starts thrashing your drive and emerge moves nowhere fast > as it becomes I/O bound, you should consider reducing the number of > jobs with MAKEOPTS="-jX" where X is a lesser number than previously > used and also reducing the --load-average to a low(er) number.
I have 8GB in this laptop (not expandable) and Chromium is currently swapping away with -j4. With -j2 it didn't so I'll try -j3 next time. You can set it on a per package basis: % cat /etc/portage/package.env/chromium www-client/chromium disk-tmpdir.conf j3.conf % cat /etc/portage/env/j3.conf MAKEOPTS="-j3" % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch" The last one is needed because TMPDIR is on a tmpfs normally. -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't suceed, try the switch marked "Power"
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