[Drako]

Based gentoo user and asuka enjoyer. I loved gentoo, probably my favorite distro I have ever tried, but compiling things like qtwebkit took waay to long. My CPU is powerful, but I need more RAM (I only have 16gb) to use up all the cores efficiently. I plan to either come back to gentoo or try out gnu guix once I get a hardware upgrade (mainly get rid of my nvidia graphics card and get more ram).

Gentoo is so far my favorite distro of all-time. I first installed it for the experience and being able to say that I installed Gentoo, but when I actually got to using it, I realized how much better it was than anything I had ever used before.

If you have 16GB make sure you use no more than "j4" in your MAKEOPTS. Using anything more than that will cause your whole system to freeze when compiling a browser. With 32GB you could get away with about "j10." It's also a good idea to use swap with Gentoo.

For MAKEOPTS its recommended to set it to your ram / 2 if you have that many cores * threads which you can check using nproc. I have never had an issue with setting it to -j8  with 16 gigs. As well as that you can set your emerge default ops to --jobs 2 to speed emerge times.

Recently I had problems compiling Firefox with 16GB on -j4, so that's why I was warning against anything higher. I do compile with LTO & PGO though.

And to make a long story short, one of my RAM sticks died. Still waiting on Corsair to send a replacement. Then I'll have my 32GB back.