On Wednesday 05 April 2006 02:13, Grant wrote: > Is there a way to make the emerge command only use system resources > that are not requested by anything else? Whenever I 'emerge sync' or > emerge a package my system slows way down and the sound sometimes > stutters badly. I'd rather have the emerge process just move really > slowly if necessary. I'm using PORTAGE_NICENESS="19" in > /etc/make.conf and it helps but not enough. > > - Grant
I don't know about PORTAGE_NICENESS, but MAKEOPTS="-j1" helped me a lot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
