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On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:43:25 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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> I'd done this experiment sometime ago, and I had sent a mail here as |
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> well regarding which load average does make account for. |
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> A couple of packages started failing compile and it turns out that |
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> they don't work well with the infinite jobs that make --jobs spawns. |
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> It's better to limit the number of jobs to 2*CPUs (or cores) with a |
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> load control like --load-average=N where N is number of CPUs. |
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That makes sense, I've altered my settings to |
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% grep jobs /etc/portage/make.conf |
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MAKEOPTS="--jobs 16 --load 10" |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical --jobs --load-average 12" |
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and two of the previously troublesome packages, libreoffice and |
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virtualbox, now work with no override. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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One difference between a man and a machine is that a machine is quiet |
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when well oiled. |
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