On Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:07:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > On this box I have this: > > # grep '\-j' /etc/portage/make.conf > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=4 [...] " > MAKEOPTS="-j4 -l4" > > That seems to work well, except for a 20s period at the beginning of > emerging qtwebengine, during which CPU load goes to 100%, according to > gkrellm. > > It seems that the ebuild runs a process other than make, ignoring make.conf. > Does anyone here know what that might be, and why it disregards my > preferences?
Does this happen while the source archive is being decompressed? You can check in top (press 'c' then 'Shift+v') to see what command/child process is eating up CPU time. Use Page Up/Down to navigate through the long list.
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