Greetings, I see that the latest version of portage has improved the handling of giant packages. Today I had a few dozen kde-frameworks packages to install, together with webkit-gtk. That job was near the top of the list, so it was started before most of the kde ones. I have this in make.conf:
$ grep '\-j' /etc/portage/make.conf EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=24 --load-average=30 [...]" MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l16" (64GB, 24 CPU threads) The CPU load then rose quickly past 40 as the kde packages got stuck in, up to 24 total jobs. I was surprised and pleased to see that packages were made to pause until cores became available. This process was progressive until the load came down again. That's a big improvement, and I'd like to commend the team on it. Just one little fly in the ointment: the status string became too long to show properly. Perhaps shorter phrases could be used, or numbers limited to two digits, or the 80-character line limit exceeded while running in an x-term. Anyway, well done the team! -- Regards, Peter.
