On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm currently timing > > MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l13" > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=13" > > with 493 packages (base plus X plus XFCE and chromium, and, of course, > USE flags), but I'll start another timed run with > > MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l8" > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=8" > > once that's finished. Last night, I tried with -j16 -l10, and that > completed in 209 minutes, but that was still with the > PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS typo, so that datapoint is mostly useless. This > one has already taken about 240 minutes. At least it's finished > building Chromium, now; I hope it doesn't still need to build gcc. > It's at 488/493. > > (insert) Just finished: > > real 208m23.880s > user 604m27.065s > sys 152m22.848s > > Apparently, I misremembered when I started it. > (/insert) >
MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l8" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=8" finished at real 217m46.366s user 588m22.397s sys 149m15.283s I'll probably set it to -l10 and leave it there; I need to start using this box for things. -- :wq