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On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:01:30 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > Running MAKEOPTS="-j1" as default on a multi-core processor seems an |
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> > awful waste of resources, unless it is needed for something else, in |
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> > which case I don't run emerge at all. |
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> Running around for a few hours trying to replicate an unreplicatable |
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> build failure is even more of a waste. |
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That depends on the number of cores you have. On a dual core system this |
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may well be true, although I'd dispute even that. |
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% cat /etc/portage/package.env/* | grep -c -e j4 -e j1 |
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Four packages out of the 1730 installed on this computer require special |
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treatment, and all of them build with -j4. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?" |
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