On Saturday 22 March 2003 11:05, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
> Previously this didn't happen but during emerge sync nowadays my CPU
> works flat out. It's a P4 2.66Ghz so not one to struggle but mouse
> movements become jerky and this can get very frustrating since it's my
> main machine.
>
> (1) Has the method of syncing changed in recent versions of portage?
> (2) What can I do to improve this issue?
No clue about (1), but for (2) you could try "nice -n 12 emerge sync",
which will run emerge and all its children at a low priority so as not to
interfere with whatever else you're doing. (I use -n 12 because I have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and dnetc running at 13 and 19, respectively, and I want it
to still have higher priority.) For more fun, create an alias called
"nsync" to do a background sync for you. Hm, or you could call it
"hanson"... ;)
With nice, I can even run full compiles while playing games or watching
videos, with little noticeable effect except when the niced processes are
doing lots of disk I/O. :)
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