On Saturday 11 Apr 2015 00:08:23 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Back to the original theme, I'd been experimenting with -j and -l make > options, and I suspect that was my real problem. I finished up with "-j > -l20" on this i5 box, with startling results - 56 emerges in parallel for > instance. I suspect that my problem stemmed from this. > > All now seems stable so far with -j12 and no -l specified. Satisfactory CPU > utilisation and the all-important stability. > > So no, perl isn't broken :)
On an early generation mobile i7 I have MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l12.8" with no noticeable adverse effects, although on recent mammoth emerges the responsiveness goes down when swap is used. I can't even recall how I arrived at these settings. -- Regards, Mick
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