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. -- C. S.
