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| >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Hughes <postmaster@localhost.localdomain> writes: Alan> "Whyld-Chyld" <test@example.com> wrote in message >> > KDE is big, much bigger than the kernel. 12 hours to compile it does >> not > surprise me (I think my compilation took about 14 hours on a dual >> P-III > 1GHz). On a dual cpu setup, you may want to change your -j >> thread to 4 in the advanced portage section of make conf. The default is >> for those of use who only have a single cpu. Alan> It actually says (last time I looked) to set -j to the number of CPUs Alan> + 1. For a dual CPU system that would mean "-j3". Which is what I had Alan> set it to! I am thinking on upgrading my system to dual Xeon. Since they have this hyperthreading, should I use -j3 or -j5? -- Arto V. Viitanen av@cs.uta.fi University of Tampere, Department of Computer and Information Sciences Tampere, Finland http://www.cs.uta.fi/~av/ |