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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:53:38
Message-Id: 12153143.O9o76ZdvQC@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average by Rich Freeman
1 On Wednesday, 15 February 2023 13:18:24 GMT Rich Freeman wrote:
2
3 > First, keep in mind that --jobs=16 + -j16 can result in up to 256
4 > (16*16) tasks running at once. Of course, that is worst case and most
5 > of the time you'll have way less than that.
6
7 Yes, I was aware of that, but why didn't --load-average=32 take precedence?
8
9 --->8
10
11 > Some packages that I build with either a greatly reduced -j setting or
12 > a non-tmpfs build directory are:
13 > sys-cluster/ceph
14 > dev-python/scipy
15 > dev-python/pandas
16 > app-office/calligra
17 > net-libs/nodejs
18 > dev-qt/qtwebengine
19 > dev-qt/qtwebkit
20 > dev-lang/spidermonkey
21 > www-client/chromium
22 > app-office/libreoffice
23 > sys-devel/llvm
24 > dev-lang/rust (I use the rust binary these days as this has gotten
25 > really out of hand)
26 > x11-libs/gtk+
27
28 Thanks for the list, Rich.
29
30 --
31 Regards,
32 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average Andreas Fink <finkandreas@×××.de>