On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Isaac Dupree <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/03/2014 04:10 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Isaac Dupree >> <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On 01/03/2014 10:37 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Using -j$(cpunum) is a sane default that saves a lot of time to users. >>> >>> >>> >>> I agree, but for the record, 'nice' and scheduling are no panacea in my >>> experience. It's fine for CPU loads, but compilations are also >>> disk-heavy >>> (which mattered when I used a spinning disk) and sometimes RAM-heavy (-j8 >>> on >>> my pet C++ project uses 2GB of RAM, which could push other programs I'm >>> using into swap). >>> >>> -Isaac >> >> >> Have you tried using ionice? > > > I think I tried ionice once, but now I have an SSD that's fast enough that I > wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Does it work well for you? > > -Isaac > I have ancient hardware and I don't really compile much. I can let my computer do its thing while I prepare dinner.
