On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:34 AM Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > On Monday, 8 May 2023 11:20:45 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Maybe you should take this to bgo where it can be flagged for the portage > > devs to look at, just keep us posted on the outcome. > > So far, I've just been asked whether I expected something different, to which I > replied "Why is --load-average=40 being ignored?" > > Perhaps we don't all understand the same things about how this is supposed to > work. > > -- > Regards, > Peter. >
OK, this is a bit of a weird thing for me to ask you to try but this page on emerge: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS says pretty clearly that "--load-average X.Y" should be a floating point number so try it with "--load-average 40.0", and further with and without the --jobs option. Note 2 things - this page doesn't say to use an "=" AND it was last edited on my birthday. It wasn't a good year for me. Possibly it wasn't a good year for this man page... ;-)