Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-07 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Con Kolivas's kernel http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ or emerge ck-sources use Kolivas' toolsched (http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/toolsched/) so that background jobs only run when no other task wants to run. toolsched uses sys-process/schedtool to

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 05 avril 2006 à 11:21 +0930, Iain Buchanan a écrit : On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:18 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: It would be nice if there was a nice command for making disk access nice so I could nicely say `nice emerge -uD world` and it wouldn't take a whole lot of disk time away from

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 05 avril 2006 à 12:07 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : Le mercredi 05 avril 2006 à 11:21 +0930, Iain Buchanan a écrit : On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:18 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: It would be nice if there was a nice command for making disk access nice so I could nicely say `nice

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Grant
It would be nice if there was a nice command for making disk access nice so I could nicely say `nice emerge -uD world` and it wouldn't take a whole lot of disk time away from my nice browsing, music playing, etc... I think /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt is your friend.

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 14:00 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote: On Wednesday 05 April 2006 12:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: meetoo! I've noticed it helps with cpu allocation, but not with the disk. If you're emerging something like sources, or openoffice, portage still gets too much disk time and

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 06 April 2006 11:08, Iain Buchanan wrote: wlll, it's not exactly old - it's a 3.0GHz P4 laptop (Inspiron 9100). It could be a RAM issue - only 512 Mb. But I definately notice it when emerging sources, and then trying to switch virtual workspaces when I have, say, firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:57 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 11:08, Iain Buchanan wrote: wlll, it's not exactly old - it's a 3.0GHz P4 laptop (Inspiron 9100). It could be a RAM issue - only 512 Mb. But I definately notice it when emerging sources, and then trying

[gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-04 Thread Grant
Is there a way to make the emerge command only use system resources that are not requested by anything else? Whenever I 'emerge sync' or emerge a package my system slows way down and the sound sometimes stutters badly. I'd rather have the emerge process just move really slowly if necessary. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 17:13 -0700, Grant wrote: I'm using PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 in /etc/make.conf and it helps but not enough. meetoo! I've noticed it helps with cpu allocation, but not with the disk. If you're emerging something like sources, or openoffice, portage still gets too much disk

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-04 Thread Roy Wright
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 17:13 -0700, Grant wrote: I'm using PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 in /etc/make.conf and it helps but not enough. meetoo! I've noticed it helps with cpu allocation, but not with the disk. If you're emerging something like sources, or openoffice,

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:18 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: during the day I run nice emerge -uDNav world usually when reading email. CPU load maxes out at around 50%. this is strange - CPU should still go to 100% (if it would without the nice command that is). Nice only affects which

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 02:13, Grant wrote: Is there a way to make the emerge command only use system resources that are not requested by anything else? Whenever I 'emerge sync' or emerge a package my system slows way down and the sound sometimes stutters badly. I'd rather have the emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-04 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 12:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: meetoo! I've noticed it helps with cpu allocation, but not with the disk. If you're emerging something like sources, or openoffice, portage still gets too much disk time and other processes suffer. nice doesn't seem to affect disk