-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I have an AMD 64x2 with MAKEOPTS set to -j3. > > I have noticed that some compiles (glibc for example) will use the > system to the fullest. top reports %CPU near 0%. Other compiles, such > as openoffice seem to use only half as much cpu time. For this top > reported consistently near 50%. > > So I'm wondering if the openoffice compile used only one of the amd > cores. Do some of the emerges ignore the MAKEOPTS setting? Or is this > an upstream issue with the compile not using threads? > > Tony
Tony, Some ebuilds filter out MAKEOPTS="-jX" because the makefile(?) is not written correctly to compile with more than one concurrent compile process. According to the OOo ebuild, -jX is not filtered, so that is not the case. Also, you may have checked the CPU usage when it was extracting the tarball, obviously the choke point here would be the HD, not the CPU. Just some extra info for you, I am not the ebuild expert. HTH - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEuwRJFN7pD9kMi/URAsCSAJwMXoPA1fqg5CHkJxbId0OYsCXEcACeKXGc r9FcluQ/XA0fRm8nBzTzmK4= =goWq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
