I also assumed at first that your kids were annoyed because of performance of the cpu taken up by the emerge compilation process. Now it appears I was wrong, its the downloads afecting online games.
Ok well how about speed limiting the wget command in portage? the download command can be specified in /etc/make.conf, and wget has a rate limiting option. RTFM for more details :-) Nick On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:13:19+1300"Fisher, Robert(FXNZ CHC)"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Truth is I usually try to change the router to point to jetstreamgames > and then.... > > emerge -uf world && emerge -u world > > Works a treat. > > For non Gentoo users - this downloads all of the files first (really > fast) then I can change the router back to normal while the > compilation takes place. > > Robert > > Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 15 December 2003 5:04 p.m. > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Nice > > Ed Zachery! > > (see my previous answer) > > Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael JasonSmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 15 December 2003 4:58 p.m. > To: linux users > Subject: Re: Nice > > 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 > > -- > Michael JasonSmith > http://www.ldots.org/ > >
