On Thursday 31 October 2024 11:56:41 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 11 October 2024 11:49:18 GMT I wrote: > > On Saturday 14 September 2024 13:05:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > 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. > > > > And indeed the line limit has been relaxed: it uses the full 90 characters > > of my Konsoles. > > More to do yet though. The merge-wait idea works well with humongous > packages like nodejs and the web engines, but it's too cautious with > ordinary ones. I've been building (too many) new systems over the last > fortnight, and when there are, say, a hundred packages to compile, the load > steadies out at about 4, with several more in merge-wait. This is with i24 > l30 in make.conf.
There's also a logic problem. When a package enters the Installing phase, it's shown instead as Merge Wait, or it's added to that queue. -- Regards, Peter.
