ok its running nicely on nice 10. That seems to leave sufficient headroom for other processes. All of kde needs a recompile for 3.1.1 so it will be interesting to see how long that takes!
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:50:46 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > >
