Re: [gentoo-amd64] Managing CPU usage when doing emerges

[Mark Haney]

Wil Reichert wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
>> I've been extremely busy lately and have let my updates get way behind.
>> Part of that is my need to keep kde-libs-3.5 on my system for K3b, etc,
>> part of that is just too much else to do.
>>
>> The problem I've encountered is when I try to do an update while I'm
>> working, my system can slow to a crawl, on a big compile usually.  I've
>> tried using nice to manage how much CPU the compile gets so I can
>> function while it's building, but it's killing the output so I can't see
>> what's going on.
>>
>> Is there another way to use nice, or to fix that problem?  Or another
>> way to manage CPU usage during an emerge?
>
> I've got PORTAGE_NICENESS="15" set in my make.conf.  Makes all emerges
> unnoticable on my system.
>
> Wil
>

Learn something everyday. I did not know of that setting.  Cool.  Thanks
for the heads up.


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