On Friday, 12 May 2023 09:34:27 BST I wrote: > > The --load-average in MAKEOPTS gets passed to make, and controls how > > many processes make starts. If that is set, and the load is still too > > high, the problem is in make not in emerge. Also, that setting will > > have no effect if the package uses ninja or something else instead of > > make. Ninja does have a -l setting for load average, but I don't know > > if emerge passes any MAKEOPTS to ninja. That might be an interesting > > enhancement request. > > I didn't know about that setting, and I can't see it in the man pages, so > you can be sure it isn't set here. You don't mean --jobs, do you?
Please ignore that. I must go for some coffee. -- Regards, Peter.
