[ccoss] Re: woohoo! first post!

dave wrote:

>Bill wrote:
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>>and -j 3 compile option, I can churn through serious amounts of code, 
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>what's -j 3??
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run 3 jobs at the same time...i.e. 3 instances of compiler. Rule of 
thumb is number of processors plus 1. The idea is while one compiler 
might be waiting of disk I/O (reading small header files, writing 
results, etc) there are 2 other compilers that hopefully can keep the 
CPU busy with peoductive work.

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>>Hehe... Seriously though, occasionally when nearly full rebuilds are 
>>needed/desired, I let it run overnight(never bothered to measure total 
>>build times), unattended unlike other systems that shall remain nameless....
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>one thing i neglected to mention: i was running gentoo on a laptop, and 
>I'm allowed to run linux at work.....so i'd start an update, then have 
>to interrupt to shutdown (or suspend) to pack up and go somewhere, to 
>then repeat the vicious cycle.
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Ouch!

>>It is late and I'm sure I'm rambling and mispelling like crazy, hope you 
>>get a chuckle out of this.
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>definitely :)
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Ha!

>man, all this talk about gentoo is making me nostalgic, now i must 
>resist the urge to give it another go! arrrrghh.....
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>dave
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<guy in red suit sitting on left shoulder>Go on Dave, you know you want 
to </girssols};^>

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