On 01/27/2011 12:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Btw, if you're using more instances than the amount of CPUs, the result > will be slow-down. > > With the default kernel scheduler, best if amount of CPUs + 1. (On a > 4-core, that's -j5).
And if you use emerge's "--jobs 2", each of those jobs will get the MAKEOPTS values sent to it. So, if you have MAKEOPTS="-s -j4" and you use "--jobs 2" with emerge, then you'll get two jobs running "gcc -s -j4". Enjoy.
