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