On Wednesday, February 15, 2023 10:56:22 AM CET Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Not long ago I read that we should allow 2GB RAM for every emerge job - that > is, we should divide our RAM size by 2 to get the maximum number of > simultaneous jobs. I'm trying to get that right, but I'm not there yet. > > I have these entries in make.conf: > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=16 --load-average=32 --autounmask=n --quiet- > unmerge-warn --ke> > MAKEOPTS="-j16" > > Today, though, I saw load averages going up to 72. Can anyone suggest better > values to suit my 24 threads and 64GB RAM?
One other item I missed in the replies: "--load-average" is also a valid option for make. If you want to keep the load down, I would suggest adding this to MAKEOPTS as well: MAKEOPTS="--jobs=16 --load-average=32" I write the options out full because I had some weird errors in the past because the "-j" wasn't handled correctly at some point. -- Joost
