On Monday 06 December 2010 11:41:21 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Did you use ionice in your make.conf to set portage to idle priority? > It can have such an effect, though I never experienced such dramatic > slowdown myself.
It's hard to remember now, because I restored the system to its previous config pretty fast, but I think I did. I won't be doing it again. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

