Gentoo in a VM not using all cores

graysky

Following the handbook to spin up gentoo in a VM. The host machine is an Intel i7-3770K (quad + hyperthreads), and I told virtualbox to give the VM all 8 cores. As well, my /etc/portage/make.conf has

hydrapolic · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 126

What did you try to emerge?

graysky · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 4:22 pm Post subject:

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21633

Your settings look fine for granting the package the option of using all cores. However, if the package build system is not sufficiently parallel, it will not have enough work to keep all cores busy.

graysky · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 6:28 pm Post subject:

This could be... when I compile kernels on my workstation outside of the VM, gcc has NO problem using all cores. It's no biggie. Thanks for the replies all.