On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> Is there a portage option that will limit the number of cores used >> by emerge? For instance, in a chroot on a 12 core machine I want to >> limit emerge to not using more than 3 cores? > On my machine, even if I tell emerge to only do one job at a time, it still > staggers around the cores. I guess it makes the CPU heat spread out evenly > or something.
Difference between "number of cores" and "which cores"..."-j1" should mean it won't use more than one core at a time, but it might switch around which core when the process gets descheduled and brought back. (Or when a process ends and another is spawned) -- :wq
