I've been using OCI containers (primarily podman) as an easy way to generate binpkgs. I've found that even --quiet=y does not effectively quiet the output, with consist and unnecessary load avg updates exactly 4 times between "installing" and "emerging" and 1 time between "emerging" and "installing": >>> Emerging binary (1 of 32) acct-group/docker-0-r1::gentoo >>> Jobs: 0 of 32 complete, 1 running Load avg: 1.51, 1.42, 0.82 >>> Installing (1 of 32) acct-group/docker-0-r1::gentoo >>> Jobs: 0 of 32 complete, 1 running Load avg: 1.51, 1.42, 0.82 >>> Jobs: 0 of 32 complete Load avg: 1.51, 1.42, 0.82 >>> Jobs: 1 of 32 complete Load avg: 1.39, 1.40, 0.81 >>> Jobs: 1 of 32 complete, 1 running Load avg: 1.39, 1.40, 0.81 >>> Emerging (2 of 32) dev-lang/go-bootstrap-1.16.6::gentoo >>> Jobs: 1 of 32 complete, 1 running Load avg: 1.39, 1.40, 0.81 >>> Installing (2 of 32) dev-lang/go-bootstrap-1.16.6::gentoo >>> Jobs: 1 of 32 complete, 1 running Load avg: 1.29, 1.37, 0.84 >>> Jobs: 1 of 32 complete Load avg: 1.29, 1.37, 0.84 >>> Jobs: 2 of 32 complete Load avg: 1.24, 1.36, 0.84 >>> Jobs: 2 of 32 complete, 1 running Load avg: 1.24, 1.36, 0.84 >>> Emerging (3 of 32) dev-lang/go-1.18.5::gentoo And this pattern repeats for the entirety of the emerge run. A similar pattern can be seen in gentoo-binhost-autobuilds: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-binhost-autobuilds/message/032aaa5e0d03949c316c62131d934862 The exact code responsible for the load average output is here: https://github.com/gentoo/portage/blob/master/lib/_emerge/JobStatusDisplay.py#L245 When the terminal is interactive, the terminal displays this on the same line over and over. Perhaps it would be better to omit the load average updates altogether when the terminal is noninteractive? Or maybe this should be the behavior of --quiet=y?