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On Thursday 28 Mar 2013 14:03:27 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 27 March 2013 18:16:22 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > OK, I'll go with... |
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> > |
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> > MAKEOPTS="-j2 --load-average=3" |
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> This box is an i5 with four single-threaded CPUs and I limit the average |
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> load to 8. Since emerge is running at niceness=3 the desktop remains |
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> responsive throughout. I used not to limit the load at all and KDE was |
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> still fine to work with. I sometimes think that with modern systems |
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> there's no need to impose limits of my own since the kernel can cope well |
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> by itself. |
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> In fact I'm going to remove the load limit and see how I get on. |
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I've got a first generation i7 and this is what I have set up in my make.conf: |
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MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l12.8" |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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Why is -l set at 12.8 ... ? At some distant point in the past this made sense |
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to me, but I have no idea how I arrived at it. Other than the cooling fan |
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speeding up I have not noticed a problem with any ebuilds. Very rarely I |
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might have used -j1 to complete a failing ebuild, but it was so long ago I |
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can't even recall it. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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