On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:25:58 +0100, Michael wrote: > > 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.
It's an SSD, but I now use distcc for Chromium and a few other large packages and the problems have gone away. -- Neil Bothwick A good pun is its own reword.
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