So I set PORTAGE_NICENESS to 19 in /etc/make.conf on my primary gentoo desktop so I could do emerges in the background and still use my box...
Well tonight I emerged boost... The system maxed out and ran that way for an hour without looking like it was going to complete anytime soon. Which wouldn't have been so bad if the system wasn't pegged to the point of being totally unresponsive under X. I eventually killed it and system load dropped back to normal. Commented out the PORTAGE_NICENESS value and emerged boost again. This time the system pegged again, but the whole process was finished in 10 minutes. So I'm starting to question how useful PORTAGE_NICENESS actually is... If the system is pegged under niceness 19 and 0, but 0 completes in 10 minutes, why would PORTAGE_NICENESS benefit me in any way? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
