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On Sunday 19 Feb 2017 13:53:49 Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when I |
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> start (e.g.) Chromium which needs very much memory if you have a lot of |
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> open tabs. |
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> In that case my system nearly freezes. I cannot even kill chrome. |
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> What can I do in that case. (Remote login doesn't work either) |
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> Can I have any additional program (like Chromium) die if there is not |
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> enough memory. |
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> Many thanks for a hint, |
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> Helmut |
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I assume you know setting --jobs= and --load-average= in emerge or in your |
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MAKEOPTS directive in /etc/portage/make.conf. You can also set |
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PORTAGE_NICENESS in make.conf, which will be added to the nice value portage |
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is running with. But these will not affect disk I/O bottlenecks. Consider |
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running emerge with ionice[1] to control disk bottlenecks. |
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[1] /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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