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On Sun, 2020-07-12 at 11:29 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Another thing I recommend is getting rid of "-j5". Use -j4. The "+1" |
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> recommendation from decades ago does not apply anymore with modern Linux |
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> kernels. You can test this yourself by emerging a smaller package that |
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> takes like 2 minutes or so to emerge, and compare times with j4 and j5. |
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> Most likely you will see no difference, other than j5 using more RAM. |
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I can confirm this as well. On RAM-limited systems (like this laptop |
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with 8 logical cores and only 8GB of memory...) I have to use "-j2" in |
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order to keep the machine usable while compiling. |
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