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On Thursday 27 January 2011 23:59:24 Mick wrote: |
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> I'm running i7 Q 720 (4 cores, hyperthreaded) and have MAKEOPTS="-j9" |
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> without any slowdown. One or two packages (like OpenOffice) will fail and |
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> need -j=1 to emerge. Otherwise no noticeable drop in desktop |
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> responsiveness. |
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> I have not set up portage niceness so it runs with default value. |
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> Given the above what shall I set --load-average as? |
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Not sure, I tested last night with a value of 12 and my system was still |
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responsive. |
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It depends, I think, on how well your system handles higher load. |
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The best suggestion I can give is to actually test with values and see how |
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well it responds. |
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