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On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:26:01 +0100, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: |
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> That being said: if you do a world rebuild you will have lots of |
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> packages that spend ~40 seconds doing their autoconf run, only to build |
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> 2-3 sources files. On an 8-core machine at work, I get good results |
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> using parallel emerge jobs (emerge -jX). For your 6-core AMD CPU |
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> (assuming it actually has 12 threads) I'd start with 'emerge -j3' and |
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> MAKEOPTS='-j12 -l16'. That should get you a nice speedup, but may |
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> require a bit more ram. |
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Instead of specifying a number of jobs with "-j 3" you can let portage |
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work it out. On a similar system, I use |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average 12" |
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Neil Bothwick |
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