On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:26:01 +0100, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > That being said: if you do a world rebuild you will have lots of > packages that spend ~40 seconds doing their autoconf run, only to build > 2-3 sources files. On an 8-core machine at work, I get good results > using parallel emerge jobs (emerge -jX). For your 6-core AMD CPU > (assuming it actually has 12 threads) I'd start with 'emerge -j3' and > MAKEOPTS='-j12 -l16'. That should get you a nice speedup, but may > require a bit more ram.
Instead of specifying a number of jobs with "-j 3" you can let portage work it out. On a similar system, I use EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average 12" -- Neil Bothwick "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
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