J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Thursday 27 January 2011 23:53:04 Dale wrote:
I just used -j with no number. It worked fine and I played Solitaire
and checked my email while it was running. The only thing I noticed was
it using swap. That could slow things down but otherwise, it worked fine.
I do have the nice and ionice settings in make.conf tho. That helps a
lot for sure. Without those, it would likely slow down a lot.
Which settings do you use for that?
--
Joost
This is my settings at the moment:
PORTAGE_NICENESS=5
PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c -3 -p \${PID}"
MAKEOPTS="-j6"
FEATURES="buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch --keep-going"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --backtrack=30"
That works very well here for me. Rig, AMD 4 core CPU at 3.2Ghz, 4Gbs
of ram at DDR3 1600 and SATA 3.0Gbs/sec. Your mileage may vary tho.
Dale
:-) :-)
