On Saturday, 13 May 2023 00:53:49 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > Anyway, I had a couple of thoughts: > > 1) If it's really a bug then as others have said report it up the > chain and hope for a fix.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/905933 > 2) If I wanted to solve the problem today(ish) then I'd build > a Gentoo VM in Virtualbox, dedicate some number of cores > to it, build everything with binary packages and probably > run an NFS server in the VM which I mount in the host > machine. I then update the host machine from the binary > packages and Virtualbox manages to never use more cores > than I give it. That fix is more or less guaranteed to work. Sounds like a lot of work. :( > 3) As a question for the far more knowledgeable system > folks I'd ask "Can this problem be solved by cgroups?" If > I have a cgroup with 10 processors in it, can I start emerge > in the host environment and then just transfer the emerge > process ID to a cgroup that I've set up for this purpose? > Isn't that what cgroups is supposed to be used for? Interesting idea, that. > Anyway, just thoughts. All grist to the mill... -- Regards, Peter.
