Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Change MAKEOPTS on the fly?

[Sam Jorna (wraeth)]

On 14/7/20 9:34 am, Sam Jorna (wraeth) wrote:
> On 14/7/20 2:33 am, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> You have to consider the --jobs option passed to emerge at the same time.
>> It's no use limiting each emerge to 2 processes if you then run multiple
>> emerges in parallel. Setting --load in MAKEOPTS and --load-average in
>> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS is worthwhile on a constrained system.
>
> It's also worth pointing out that emerge's --load-average is only
> evaluated when it's looking to start building a new package/job, as
> opposed to MAKEOPTS' (ie. make's) --load which is evaluated every time
> make wants to spawn a new thread. If your load average drops below the
> threshold, emerge will start a new job with potentially -jN make threads
> (though this is mitigated somewhat if also using --load in MAKEOPTS).

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Sam Jorna (wraeth)