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From: james <garftd@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Specific MAKEOPTS for one package
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:57:35
Message-Id: 7fe78231-ed1d-dcff-b919-7f36e2ff4c9f@verizon.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Specific MAKEOPTS for one package by Klaus Ethgen
1 On 9/25/18 10:05 AM, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
2 > Thanks Dale and Michael, that was exactly I was searching for. (I think.
3 > ;-)
4 >
5 > Am Di den 25. Sep 2018 um 15:00 schrieb Peter Humphrey:
6 >> On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 14:25:50 BST Klaus Ethgen wrote:
7 >
8 >>> Is there an option to set -j1 just for firefox package? (and rust, that
9 >>> has the same problem)?
10 >
11 >> As Dale and Michael said, but you may find -j2 acceptable; It's what I use for
12 >> everything here.
13 >
14 > No. Firefox and Rust is such a beast. It kills my machine even with -j2.
15 >
16 > Regards
17 > Klaus
18 >
19 >
20
21 Memory may be your issue. A wide variety of places to look at::
22 ebuild
23 kernel
24 userland
25
26
27 I'd suggest you start with reading up on 'jemalloc' as a place to start.
28 Hopefully other will 'chime in' on debugging/controlling memory
29 constrained systems and large memory requirements on older/limited
30 resources.
31
32 hth,
33 James