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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Change MAKEOPTS on the fly?
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:44:12
Message-Id: 20200713184350.6227c51f@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Change MAKEOPTS on the fly? by "Matt Connell (Gmail)"
1 On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:50:08 -0500, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
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3 > > You have to consider the --jobs option passed to emerge at the same
4 > > time. It's no use limiting each emerge to 2 processes if you then run
5 > > multiple emerges in parallel.
6 >
7 > According to the man page, this defaults to 1 if emerging
8 > interactively, which I always do.
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10 It does, but that's a very inefficient use of resources as a single emerge
11 often spends a lot of its time not hammering the CPU.
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