381285 – www-client/chromium: extremely high load while compiling

Bug 381285 - www-client/chromium: extremely high load while compiling

Summary: www-client/chromium: extremely high load while compiling

Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal major (vote)
Assignee:	Chromium Project

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Reported:	2011-08-31 12:57 UTC by Jonas Bernoulli
Modified:	2011-09-02 18:37 UTC (History)
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Description Jonas Bernoulli 2011-08-31 12:57:22 UTC

Compiling chromium causes a very high load. I have seen it rise to 12 and above. Since I have only four (virtual) cores, it is not even possible to kill the build without a cold restart.

I have worked around this in the past by compiling chromium separately using MAKEOPTS=-j1. But when trying to compile 15.0.865.0 this does not help anymore. It still climbed to 6 at which point I killed the build while I was still able to.

Comment 1 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-09-02 18:37:32 UTC

Yeah, compiling chromium requires resources. I'm not sure if we can do anything about it.

Feel free to re-open with precise suggestions how we can improve the situation (forcing everyone to compile with -j1 is not an option) or with patches.