On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 02:25:50PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote > Hi Folks, > > I have set MAKEOPTS="-j3" in my make.conf.
I assume you have 2 cores on your cpu and you're adding 1 as per the ancient rule. That may not be the best option anyways. See https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2013/01/14/makeopts-jcore-1-is-not-the-best-optimization/ The author of the blog post ran multiple tests, and concluded that setting MAKEOPTS -j to the actual number of cores is slightly faster. Years ago, the gcc compiler was less efficient, and adding 1 to -j did improve compilation speed. That is apparently not the case today. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
