On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:38, Nick Rout wrote:
> I want to run a compling job with lower priority, so it does not detract
> too much from desktop use and stuff.
>
> The gentoo command to load or update a new package is
>
> emerge package ; or
>
> emerge -u world
>
> This starts any number of child processes. gcc a million times etc.
>
> If I run emerge with a lower priority, will all the child processes run at
> that priority?

Yes, I believe so.

> And how exactly do I do this anyway??

nohup nice 19 emerge -u world > /tmp/emerge.log 2> /tmp/emerge.errs &

and to have a quick peek to see what's happening

tail -f /tmp/emerge.log

The nohup allows you to logout of the current shell leaving the processing 
running.

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C. S.

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