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On 12/07/2020 11:54, tastytea wrote: |
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> On 2020-07-12 11:29+0300 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 12/07/2020 09:04, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> is there a way to change the MAKEOPTS setting on a running |
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>>> emerge? I am using "-j 5 -l 4" whilst emerging gcc-9.3 but its |
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>>> creating too much pressure on memory. I expect the emerge to take |
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>>> many more hours but complete eventually - but reducing it to "-j2" |
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>>> will help other operations whilst not losing whats already been |
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>>> completed (this is an old atom N330 with 4G ram and is my |
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>>> gateway/router/firewall/snort/... and the overload is starting to |
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>>> affect the network throughput significantly). |
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>> […] |
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>> ionice is in sys-apps/util-linux, so it's probably already installed. |
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>> schedtool though is in sys-process/schedtool and it might not be |
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>> installed. |
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>> […] |
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> |
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> The nice level can also be adjusted with `renice` from |
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> sys-apps/util-linux: |
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> renice -n 19 -p pid |
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Yep, forgot about that. However, I have observed that the nice level |
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doesn't have much impact. But setting a process to SCHED_IDLEPRIO |
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(schedtool -D) and nice level 19 (schedtool -n 19) has a huge impact. |
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