Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>> OK, my bad for confusing the two. Currently make.conf in the chroot says:
>>
>> MAKEOPTS="-j3"
>>
>> and when I run emerge in the chroot it's typically
>>
>> emerge -DuN -j2 @world
>>
>> so I think that's about right, or would hope it is anyway. If you see
>> a problem please let me know.
>
> The -j2 on emerge means it'll run 2 makes at once, and each make is
> getting -j3, so it'll use (up to) 6 cores at once. You probably want
> to just stop using -j option for emerge entirely and stick to the
> MAKEOPTS one.
>
>

I wondered about that. Thanks. It's back to single packages at a time
in the chroot.

Cheers,
Mark