On Thursday 27 January 2011 23:53:04 Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 01/27/2011 09:41 PM, Dale wrote: > >> I noticed the same thing with mine. It used a LOT of ram. I have 4Gbs > >> and it was up to about 3Gbs at one point and using some swap as well. > >> I'm hoping to max out to 16Gbs as soon as I can. May upgrade to a 6 core > >> CPU too. > >> > >> I wonder how much faster it would be if the work directory is put on > >> tmpfs? With 16Gbs, that should work even for OOo. > > > > 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). > > I just used -j with no number. It worked fine and I played Solitaire > and checked my email while it was running. The only thing I noticed was > it using swap. That could slow things down but otherwise, it worked fine. > > I do have the nice and ionice settings in make.conf tho. That helps a > lot for sure. Without those, it would likely slow down a lot.
Which settings do you use for that? -- Joost
