On Mar 26, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Kyle Skrinak wrote:
I'm sorry if this is covered already. As we know, running Fink can bog
down a system. I'm aware that this isn't so much fink as it is the many
process call-outs that happen while compiling. During this time frame,
my system (G4 667 MHz Powerbook) becomes nearly useless. So this has led
me to wondering: what is the quickest environment setup from which to
execute fink commands?
For example, 1) I have recently started to go to the Mac OS X login
screen so I can ">console" in and run fink from there. I presume there's
not the additional overhead that my full Aqua interface has, but I'm
unaware if this also takes a hit as the console screen draw isn't
exactly quick. I suppose I could do fink install finkapp > output.txt?
2) I am now just tinkering with a terminal app called GLTerm which
boasts a quicker draw than Terminal.app. Given the verbosity of fink
output, does this help? Or, would the redirect I'm thinking above moot
that as well? 3) What else is there?
Outputting to a file may help, as may using a screen session. That way you could detach it from the terminal. The best thing to keep your machine useable, though, is to nice the process to the lowest priority. A `nice -n 20 fink install foo` works well. The machine will still bog down a little when there is heavy disk i/o, but that should still be better than it is now.
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