I think (i dont use gentoo) emerge compiles as well On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 16:57, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 16:40, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > su - > > Password: secretblah > > nohup nice 18 emerge --update package 2&1> ~/emerge.log & > > logout > > > > The update will now take place in the backgound at a very low > > priority, and probably won't even be noticed. > Really? I would imagine that downloading many MB of data would not be > very CPU intensive, so altering the "nice" level would not have a > dramatic affect on the performance of the machine. > > The kids problem is this, if I understand correctly: > 1. "emerge" is scheduled. > 2. "emerge" requests a heap of data from the server. > 3. The kernel puts "emerge" into interruptible-sleep state (D) > until the data has arrived. > 4. The pipe fills with data coming in from the server. > 5. No...bandwidth...left...for...UT. Much...lag. Getting... > fragged...lots...damn...you...Dad! > Altering the "nice" level only affects how frequently (1) occurs, while > the real problem is (4), which still happens far too frequently for the > kids to be happy. > > There is a solution to their problem. I think it is called "bandwidth > shaping" but I am not too sure of its name or how to do it\ldots --
.''`. Paul William : :' : Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system
