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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, James Homuth<james@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I just got Gnome set up completely on a 5-year-old laptop with 512 MB of RAM |
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> running on a P4, and am sort of halfway in the middle of playing with it. In |
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> the process, I'm discovering I still need to install a few things. Just one |
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> problem. I emerge said things, and the system flatlines until such time as |
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> the compilation(s) are done--load is currently sitting at 2.1+. Are there |
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> any make.conf settings I can tweak so that I can still actually use the |
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> system while things compile, or would I be better off setting things to |
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> compile, throwing in a movie, and coming back when they're done? Thanks for |
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> any pointers. |
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I've always set portage niceness to 19 (the maximum) on every Gentoo |
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system I've ever built and compiling is usually not noticeable at all. |
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I think in your case the biggest problem would be RAM, since compiling |
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often uses hundreds of megs at a time. |
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