On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:16:18 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > So my advice for others is to not take Walter's advice and use -j1 > because "it doesn't slow down the emerge that much". It can slow it > down. Up to four times slower.
Personaly, I've never had an ebuild fail due to setting MAKEOPTS=-j>1 but if you want to set -j1 in make.conf, you can regain a significant part of the time loss, by running emerge with --jobs=2 (or more) to run multiple compiles in parallel while keeping each package's compilation single-threaded. -- Neil Bothwick Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist?
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