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 the desktop remains > responsive throughout. I used not to limit the load at all and KDE was > still fine to work with. I sometimes think that with modern systems > there's no need to impose limits of my own since the kernel can cope well > by itself. > > In fact I'm going to remove the load limit and see how I get on.
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" Why is -l set at 12.8 ... ? At some distant point in the past this made sense to me, but I have no idea how I arrived at it. Other than the cooling fan speeding up I have not noticed a problem with any ebuilds. Very rarely I might have used -j1 to complete a failing ebuild, but it was so long ago I can't even recall it. -- Regards, Mick
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