On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 08:58 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > So essentially what you're saying here is that it might be worthwhile > to look into parallelism as a whole and possibly come up with a > solution that combines 'emerge --jobs' and build-system parallelism > together to maximum benefit?
Forget about jobs and load average, and just keep starting jobs all around until there is only 20% (or whatever tuneable amount) free memory left. As far as I can tell this is always the real bottleneck in the end. Once you hit swap overall throughput has to go down quite a bit. Hans
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