On Montag 18 Mai 2009, Mark Haney wrote: > Wil Reichert wrote: > > 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 > > Learn something everyday. I did not know of that setting. Cool. Thanks > for the heads up.
19 should be better. Once upon a time it marked portage as 'sched_batch' which was theoretically speeding up compiling.
