On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 10:34, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Friday, 12 May 2023 01:38:52 BST Jack wrote: > > The --load-average to emerge itself just tells it not to start a new job > > if the load is above the setting. If there are several large jobs, but > > all start with single threaded configuration activity such as > > ./configure or cmake, multiple jobs can clearly get started before the > > load average starts climbing. > > I have said several times that portage is ignoring that setting. I have it at > 40, yet portage kicks off more packages at 72, and continues doing so for > extended periods - at least 15 minutes.
But are you sure that it is actually ignored? It was said in an earlier message from Mark that the value was related to number of cores, where your 24 cores at 100% average load would translate to a value of --load-average 24.0. That would put your value of 40 at 166% average load? What load are you actually trying to limit it to? If you want 40% load, that should apparently be --load-average 9.6. Regards, Arve
