On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:46:23 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > You may want to experiment by setting env variables for Chromium to > > restrict --jobs and --load-average so as to keep broadly within the > > constraints of the available RAM. > > If it's only once or twice a month, it's not worth fussing with. I > swear there have been a couple times in the past few months when it > got updated multiple times within a week...
So it's not once or twice a month ;-) Oftentimes, it's a rebuild rather than an update, triggered by one of its dependencies. Adding two lines to /etc/portage to sets -j2 for this one ebuild is hardly a fuss and well worth the effort. The problem is not so much the CPU usage as using up all the RAM with several jobs and ending up running on swap. Using distcc hasn't massively reduced build times but it has substantially reduced the impact of the build on using the machine. -- Neil Bothwick ... Taglines: and How They Affect Women. Next On Oprah.
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