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 packages (or tickles > bugs in their ebuilds/Makefiles). > > Lately whenever a build fails I change to > > MAKEOPTS="--jobs=1" > > and this very often "fixes" the problem. > > 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 bugs when it fails. > > thanks, > allan > > PS I do not change EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS >
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 zfs-kmod. But that's because zfs-kmod requires a complete built spl.
