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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is perl broken?
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 07:58:28
Message-Id: 201504110858.11025.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is perl broken? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Saturday 11 Apr 2015 00:08:23 Peter Humphrey wrote:
2
3 > Back to the original theme, I'd been experimenting with -j and -l make
4 > options, and I suspect that was my real problem. I finished up with "-j
5 > -l20" on this i5 box, with startling results - 56 emerges in parallel for
6 > instance. I suspect that my problem stemmed from this.
7 >
8 > All now seems stable so far with -j12 and no -l specified. Satisfactory CPU
9 > utilisation and the all-important stability.
10 >
11 > So no, perl isn't broken :)
12
13 On an early generation mobile i7 I have MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l12.8" with no
14 noticeable adverse effects, although on recent mammoth emerges the
15 responsiveness goes down when swap is used. I can't even recall how I arrived
16 at these settings.
17 --
18 Regards,
19 Mick

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