Re: [gentoo-amd64] MAKEOPTS values for Athlon 64 X2

2007-01-15 Thread Thomas Rösner
PaulNM wrote: Hey folks, [...] I've also seen some mentions of -j9 by people with dual core systems elsewhere, indicating it drastically speed up some emerges. ...and drastically slow down others? So this leaves me with several possibilities. There's -j3 (current setting), -j5, -j (no l

Re: [gentoo-amd64] MAKEOPTS values for Athlon 64 X2

2007-01-15 Thread Toshinori Endo
Hello PaulNM, PaulNM wrote: Hey folks, I'm wondering if anyone has experimented with different values for MAKEOPTS="-jx" on Athlon 64 X2's. The guides usually suggest # of cores/processors plus one. Looking at "man make.conf" doesn't help much, it just says "Suggested settings are betw

[gentoo-amd64] MAKEOPTS values for Athlon 64 X2

2007-01-14 Thread PaulNM
Hey folks, I'm wondering if anyone has experimented with different values for MAKEOPTS="-jx" on Athlon 64 X2's. The guides usually suggest # of cores/processors plus one. Looking at "man make.conf" doesn't help much, it just says "Suggested settings are between CPUs+1 and 2*CPUs+1". The on