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From: "Peter Böhm" <peter.bo@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:32:07
Message-Id: 2668212.mvXUDI8C0e@big
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average by Peter Humphrey
1 Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2023, 10:56:22 CET schrieb Peter Humphrey:
2 > Hello list,
3 >
4 > Not long ago I read that we should allow 2GB RAM for every emerge job - that
5 > is, we should divide our RAM size by 2 to get the maximum number of
6 > simultaneous jobs. I'm trying to get that right, but I'm not there yet.
7 >
8 > I have these entries in make.conf:
9 > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=16 --load-average=32 --autounmask=n --quiet-
10 > unmerge-warn --ke>
11 > MAKEOPTS="-j16"
12 >
13 > Today, though, I saw load averages going up to 72. Can anyone suggest better
14 > values to suit my 24 threads and 64GB RAM?
15
16 Maybe you are interested in this wiki article:
17
18 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/Optimize_compile_times
19
20 Regards,
21 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>