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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:08:04
Message-Id: 200604050357.28528.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real by Grant
1 On Wednesday 05 April 2006 02:13, Grant wrote:
2 > Is there a way to make the emerge command only use system resources
3 > that are not requested by anything else? Whenever I 'emerge sync' or
4 > emerge a package my system slows way down and the sound sometimes
5 > stutters badly. I'd rather have the emerge process just move really
6 > slowly if necessary. I'm using PORTAGE_NICENESS="19" in
7 > /etc/make.conf and it helps but not enough.
8 >
9 > - Grant
10
11 I don't know about PORTAGE_NICENESS, but MAKEOPTS="-j1" helped me a lot.
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