On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:43:25 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > I'd done this experiment sometime ago, and I had sent a mail here as > well regarding which load average does make account for. > A couple of packages started failing compile and it turns out that > they don't work well with the infinite jobs that make --jobs spawns. > > It's better to limit the number of jobs to 2*CPUs (or cores) with a > load control like --load-average=N where N is number of CPUs.
That makes sense, I've altered my settings to % grep jobs /etc/portage/make.conf MAKEOPTS="--jobs 16 --load 10" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical --jobs --load-average 12" and two of the previously troublesome packages, libreoffice and virtualbox, now work with no override. -- Neil Bothwick One difference between a man and a machine is that a machine is quiet when well oiled.
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