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On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:09:41 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> >> If it's only once or twice a month, it's not worth fussing with. I |
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> >> swear there have been a couple times in the past few months when it |
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> >> got updated multiple times within a week... |
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> > So it's not once or twice a month ;-) |
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> > Oftentimes, it's a rebuild rather than an update, triggered by one of |
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> > its dependencies. Adding two lines to /etc/portage to sets -j2 for |
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> > this one ebuild is hardly a fuss and well worth the effort. |
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> The fuss is the experimentation to find out if -j2 is faster than -j1 |
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> or not. |
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In my situation is is not so much about speed but not bringing the system |
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to its knees. I found the -j3 was generally acceptable with 8GB, -j2 may |
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have been better, but as long as it worked I was happy. |
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I run testing on this laptop so updates were more frequent, although I |
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now use Chromium from stable to reduce that. |
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