On Friday, 12 June 2020 16:17:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:09:41 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > >> 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 fuss is the experimentation to find out if -j2 is faster than -j1 > > or not. > > In my situation is is not so much about speed but not bringing the system > to its knees. I found the -j3 was generally acceptable with 8GB, -j2 may > have been better, but as long as it worked I was happy. > > I run testing on this laptop so updates were more frequent, although I > now use Chromium from stable to reduce that.
Ahh! Yes, running Chromium ~amd64 must introduce a whole new world of pain! :-) Have you also tried 'echo bfq > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler' to see if it makes a difference? It seems to have made a positive difference on my systems here, especially if they are on spinning disks, with limited RAM.
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