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So I set PORTAGE_NICENESS to 19 in /etc/make.conf on my primary gentoo |
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desktop so I could do emerges in the background and still use my box... |
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Well tonight I emerged boost... The system maxed out and ran that way for an |
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hour without looking like it was going to complete anytime soon. Which |
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wouldn't have been so bad if the system wasn't pegged to the point of being |
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totally unresponsive under X. |
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I eventually killed it and system load dropped back to normal. Commented out |
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the PORTAGE_NICENESS value and emerged boost again. |
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This time the system pegged again, but the whole process was finished in 10 |
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minutes. |
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So I'm starting to question how useful PORTAGE_NICENESS actually is... If |
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the system is pegged under niceness 19 and 0, but 0 completes in 10 minutes, |
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why would PORTAGE_NICENESS benefit me in any way? |
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