Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is 'MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"' silly?

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

Another interesting point about this load control thing is that if the
package uses a build system which doesn't support load control, load will
surge high.

It is currently happening with me while installing Mongo, because the build
system scons doesn't have load control feature.
On Mar 29, 2013 11:36 PM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 03/29/2013 01:46 PM, Dale wrote:
> > »Q« wrote:
> >> On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:54:37 +0000
> >> Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 29 March 2013, at 03:36, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> >>>>> ...
> >>>>>> I can only imagine he was pointing out that you have a single CPU
> >>>>>> with four cores in it.
> >>>>> You're right, of course. I should have said /cores/.
> >>>> Cores or CPUs.. in this context it's *almost*, __NOT EXACTLY__ same.
> >>> Which is exactly what was so twitch inducing!
> >> Whatever you do, don't read the first sentence at
> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor>.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Especially this FIRST part:
> >
> > "A *multi-core processor* is a single computing
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing> component . . ."
> >
> > So, it is a SINGLE component.  To me, CPUs means having more than one
> > CPU component, such as dual CPUs or even quad CPUs which used to be
> > fairly common.
> >
> > I have a single CPU computer.  It has 4 cores but a single CPU.  I hope
> > to upgrade one day to a 8 core CPU.  I'll still have a single CPU
> > component installed tho.
> >
> > This is getting really funny.  ROFL  You can tell when the list is
> > getting slow when we start parsing each word and each words meaning.  ;-)
>
> The list hasn't been slow all week. ^^
>
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