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On 01/14 12:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:36:23 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > With each job taking up to 1.2G of RAM you can quickly exhaust |
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> > available memory on older PCs and swapping can start grinding the box |
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> > to a halt. Since the move to profile 17.0 I found my old laptop comes |
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> > to its knees on compiling larger packages like Chromium. If you also |
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> > find swapping starts thrashing your drive and emerge moves nowhere fast |
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> > as it becomes I/O bound, you should consider reducing the number of |
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> > jobs with MAKEOPTS="-jX" where X is a lesser number than previously |
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> > used and also reducing the --load-average to a low(er) number. |
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> I have 8GB in this laptop (not expandable) and Chromium is currently |
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> swapping away with -j4. With -j2 it didn't so I'll try -j3 next time. |
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> You can set it on a per package basis: |
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> % cat /etc/portage/package.env/chromium |
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> www-client/chromium disk-tmpdir.conf j3.conf |
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> % cat /etc/portage/env/j3.conf |
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> MAKEOPTS="-j3" |
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> % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf |
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> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch" |
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> The last one is needed because TMPDIR is on a tmpfs normally. |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> If at first you don't suceed, try the switch marked "Power" |
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Hi, |
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thanks a lot for all the input. |
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I disabled pulseaudio via USE flag and recompiled the whole stuff. |
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And VOILA! : Sound without apulse and pulseaudio! NICE! |
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Cheers! |
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Meino |
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