[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, portage niceness and distcc

[Daniel da Veiga]

Hello List,

I've been trying to upgrade an really old machine to the new gcc, and
so, following the guide, I'm at the "emerge --oneshot
sys-libs/libstdc++-v3" step. This old hardware suits my needs for a
web server and MySQL mirror, but that's about the charge it can
handle, so, I've set PORTAGE_NICENESS to 15, I don't mind if it take a
whole month to compile, but it must be responsive to other processes
all the time.

What I've noticed is that the process is using nice 0 (that pretty
much makes the machine unusable), and distcc is not working, if it
was, I'm pretty sure the time would reduce greatly because other
emerge operations that use it are getting super fast responses thanks
to the distcc and ccache wonders (my host is already upgraded).

Is there a way to compile this or migrate GCC with binary packages or
something like it? I have compatible CHOSTs flags on both machines and
the other one is a fast server.

Any advice would be great.

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Daniel da Veiga
Computer Operator - RS - Brazil
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