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

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:57:09 -0400, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:

> It is not clear that any time saved by having jobs=5 compensates for
> having to redo builds.  So my question is do people
>
> 1. keep jobs=1 in MAKEOPTS
> 2. have jobs=n in MAKEOPTS but degrade on error as I do
> 3. have jobs=n and file bugs when it fails.
>
> thanks,
> allan
>
> PS I do not change EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS

I have "--jobs --load-average=12" in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS and override
this for known problematic packages in /etc/portage/package.env.

For example:

% cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice 
app-office/libreoffice j4.conf

% cat /etc/portage/env/j4.conf 
MAKEOPTS="-j4"

Running MAKEOPTS="-j1" as default on a multi-core processor seems an
awful waste of resources, unless it is needed for something else, in
which case I don't run emerge at all.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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