On Thursday 28 Mar 2013 14:03:27 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 27 March 2013 18:16:22 Walter Dnes wrote:
OK, I'll go with...
MAKEOPTS=-j2 --load-average=3
This box is an i5 with four single-threaded CPUs and I limit the average
load to 8. Since emerge is running at niceness=3
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:36:56 +, Mick wrote:
I've got a first generation i7 and this is what I have set up in my
make.conf:
MAKEOPTS=-j5 -l12.8
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--quiet-build=n
n is the default for quiet-build if --jobs is set to 1, or unspecified.
But using a higher value will
On 29 March 2013, at 03:36, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
...
I can only imagine he was pointing out that you have a single CPU with four
cores in it.
You're right, of course. I should have said /cores/.
Cores or CPUs.. in this context it's *almost*, __NOT EXACTLY__ same.
Which is exactly
On Wednesday 27 March 2013 18:16:22 Walter Dnes wrote:
OK, I'll go with...
MAKEOPTS=-j2 --load-average=3
This box is an i5 with four single-threaded CPUs and I limit the average
load to 8. Since emerge is running at niceness=3 the desktop remains
responsive throughout. I used not to
On 28 March 2013, at 14:03, Peter Humphrey wrote:
...
This box is an i5 with four single-threaded CPUs …
Your usage of the term CPUs is making me twitch.
On Thursday 28 March 2013 19:28:47 Stroller wrote:
On 28 March 2013, at 14:03, Peter Humphrey wrote:
...
This box is an i5 with four single-threaded CPUs …
Your usage of the term CPUs is making me twitch.
What would you have said?
And it wasn't usage, it was use.
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On 29/03/13 00:40, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 28 March 2013 19:28:47 Stroller wrote:
On 28 March 2013, at 14:03, Peter Humphrey wrote:
... This box is an i5 with four single-threaded CPUs …
Your usage of the term CPUs is making me
On Friday 29 March 2013 01:24:48 Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
I can only imagine he was pointing out that you have a single CPU with
four cores in it.
You're right, of course. I should have said /cores/.
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Peter
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Peter Humphrey
pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
On Friday 29 March 2013 01:24:48 Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
I can only imagine he was pointing out that you have a single CPU with
four cores in it.
You're right, of course. I should have said /cores/.
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 08:34:29AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:01:30 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
Running MAKEOPTS=-j1 as default on a multi-core processor seems an
awful waste of resources, unless it is needed for something else, in
which case I don't run emerge at
On Tue, Mar 26 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:43:25 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
It's better to limit the number of jobs to 2*CPUs (or cores) with a
load control like --load-average=N where N is number of CPUs.
I have two i7-3520Ms. Each has hyperthreading so counts
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:50 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Tue, Mar 26 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:43:25 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
It's better to limit the number of jobs to 2*CPUs (or cores) with a
load control like --load-average=N where N is number of CPUs.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 08:07:06PM +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote
@Walter, I'm also on a dual core machine, and as per my observation
over long emerges, load doesn't cross 2.2.
I have also observed that if it is limited to 2, system seems to be
under utilized, because make checks the 1
Am 26.03.2013 22:40, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:58:29 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
I havent't had any failed builds that were related to the --jobs
option. The only exception is when rebuilding my kernel modules. I
have to build spl first, then zfs-kmod. But that's
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:54:39 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
emerge @module-rebuild seems to work just fine on my machine. Thx for
the tip, I did not know of this @set
@x11-module-rebuild is worth knowing about too :)
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Neil Bothwick
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:01:30 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
Running MAKEOPTS=-j1 as default on a multi-core processor seems an
awful waste of resources, unless it is needed for something else, in
which case I don't run emerge at all.
Running around for a few hours trying to replicate an
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:29:00 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
% cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice
app-office/libreoffice j4.conf
% cat /etc/portage/env/j4.conf
MAKEOPTS=-j4
I see. Clever.
Do you file bugs when you need to restrict MAKEOPTS?
If I need to restrict it to
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:29:00 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
% cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice
app-office/libreoffice j4.conf
% cat /etc/portage/env/j4.conf
MAKEOPTS=-j4
I see. Clever.
Do you file
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:43:25 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
I'd done this experiment sometime ago, and I had sent a mail here as
well regarding which load average does make account for.
A couple of packages started failing compile and it turns out that
they don't work well with the infinite
Am 25.03.2013 23:32, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:27:04 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
This is what I use:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--jobs=2 --load-average=6
I havent't had any failed builds that were related to the --jobs option.
The only exception is when rebuilding my kernel
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:58:29 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
I havent't had any failed builds that were related to the --jobs
option. The only exception is when rebuilding my kernel modules. I
have to build spl first, then zfs-kmod. But that's because zfs-kmod
requires a complete built
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:57:09 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
It is not clear that any time saved by having jobs=5 compensates for
having to redo builds. So my question is do people
1. keep jobs=1 in MAKEOPTS
2. have jobs=n in MAKEOPTS but degrade on error as I do
3. have jobs=n and file
Am 25.03.2013 21:57, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu:
For a long time I have had in make.conf
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=5
MAKEOPTS=--jobs --load-average=5
(for previous processors the 5 was 3).
It seems that this configuration fails for several
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:27:04 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
This is what I use:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--jobs=2 --load-average=6
I havent't had any failed builds that were related to the --jobs option.
The only exception is when rebuilding my kernel modules. I have to build
spl first, then
On Mon, Mar 25 2013, Michael Hampicke wrote:
Am 25.03.2013 21:57, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu:
For a long time I have had in make.conf
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=5
MAKEOPTS=--jobs --load-average=5
(for previous processors the 5 was 3).
It
On Mon, Mar 25 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:57:09 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
It is not clear that any time saved by having jobs=5 compensates for
having to redo builds. So my question is do people
1. keep jobs=1 in MAKEOPTS
2. have jobs=n in MAKEOPTS but degrade
gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
Also I am somewhat surprised you can run libreoffice with
MAKEOPTS=-j4. I seem to remember that being one of the ones I had to
degrade. Thanks for the tip, I will use it. allan
I update libreoffice whenever it needs it and I have this setting:
MAKEOPTS=-j16
It hasn't
On Mon, Mar 25 2013, Dale wrote:
gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
Also I am somewhat surprised you can run libreoffice with
MAKEOPTS=-j4. I seem to remember that being one of the ones I had to
degrade. Thanks for the tip, I will use it. allan
I update libreoffice whenever it needs it and I have
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:25:58PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
Running MAKEOPTS=-j1 as default on a multi-core processor seems an
awful waste of resources, unless it is needed for something else, in
which case I don't run emerge at all.
Running around for a few hours trying to replicate an
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