On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Mark Haney <mha...@ercbroadband.org> wrote: > I've been extremely busy lately and have let my updates get way behind. > Part of that is my need to keep kde-libs-3.5 on my system for K3b, etc, > part of that is just too much else to do. > > The problem I've encountered is when I try to do an update while I'm > working, my system can slow to a crawl, on a big compile usually. I've > tried using nice to manage how much CPU the compile gets so I can > function while it's building, but it's killing the output so I can't see > what's going on. > > Is there another way to use nice, or to fix that problem? Or another > way to manage CPU usage during an emerge?
I've got PORTAGE_NICENESS="15" set in my make.conf. Makes all emerges unnoticable on my system. Wil
