Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 20 June 2024 20:06:17 BST Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On interrupting one such hang, I found that 32 install jobs had been > > waiting to run; is this limit hard coded? I also saw "too many jobs" or > > something, and "could not read job counter"

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 6/20/24 12:07 PM, Jack wrote: > Again, I don't know if it matters in this case, but my understanding is > that MAKEOPTS only affects jobs using make.  I don't know if there are > equivalent controls for ninja or other build systems. Might that be > relevant here?  If you run top, limit to runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm finding > the system stalling because it can't handle all its install jobs. I have this > set: > > $ grep '\-j' /etc/portage/make.conf > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs -

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 20 June 2024 16:29:11 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:40:12 BST Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:27:18 BST Jack wrote: > > > On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Wols Lists
On 20/06/2024 16:29, Peter Humphrey wrote: Anyway, it still rankles that I can't use more than half the machine's power because of limits in portage. This can't be the only 64GiB machine in gentoo- land, surely. Well, I think my machine has 4x32GiB slots, and two are full, so that makes 64GiB

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Jack
On 6/20/24 11:29 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:40:12 BST Michael wrote: On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:27:18 BST Jack wrote: On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm finding the system stalling becau

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:40:12 BST Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:27:18 BST Jack wrote: > > On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm > > > finding the system stalling because it can't handle all its install

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:27:18 BST Jack wrote: > On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm > > finding the system stalling because it can't handle all its install jobs. > > I have this set: > > > > $

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:27:18 BST Jack wrote: > On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm > > finding the system stalling because it can't handle all its install jobs. > > I have this set: > > > > $

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Jack
On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm finding the system stalling because it can't handle all its install jobs. I have this set: $ grep '\-j' /etc/portage/make.conf EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=30

[gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm finding the system stalling because it can't handle all its install jobs. I have this set: $ grep '\-j' /etc/portage/make.conf EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=30 [...]" MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l16" The CPU has