Re: [proaudio] MAKEOPTS and multicore processor

[Ross <rosscoad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dominique Michel wrote:
> I experimented complete system freeze merging hugin. I have a 4 core phenom and
> followed the advice into the handbook by setting 
>
> MAKEOPTS="-j5"
>
> When the system was hanging, around or less than 1G ram was in use and the
> processor use for the 4 cores was 100%.
>
> I try with
>
> MAKEOPTS="-j2" emerge hugin
>
> and it worked just fine.
>
> Is it just to go with MAKEOPTS="-j2" in make.conf ?
I am running 3 core Phenom here with MAKEOPTS="-j4" and working fine. I 
think your problem may lie elsewhere, RAM maybe?

Cheers
Ross.