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Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: |
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> That being said: if you do a world rebuild you will have lots of packages |
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> that spend ~40 seconds doing their autoconf run, only to build 2-3 sources |
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> files. On an 8-core machine at work, I get good results using parallel |
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> emerge jobs (emerge -jX). For your 6-core AMD CPU (assuming it actually |
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> has 12 threads) I'd start with 'emerge -j3' and MAKEOPTS='-j12 -l16'. |
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> That should get you a nice speedup, but may require a bit more ram. |
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emerge -j3 is something I did not think of, I'll try it. But won't that break portage's |
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carefully crafted package dependencies? I suppose you could get occasional build failures? |
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I'm using MAKEOPTS=-j7, I thought 2 threads per CPU (hyperthreading?) was an Intel thing only. |
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