Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 17 June 2007 11:36:46 Richard Freeman wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The kernel includes three schedulers: anticipatory, deadline and (the > > default) CFQ, whereas the author refers only to "old" and "new" > > schedulers. I wonder which of the features he describes are common to > >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-17 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The kernel includes three schedulers: anticipatory, deadline and (the > default) CFQ, whereas the author refers only to "old" and "new" schedulers. > I wonder which of the features he describes are common to all three. I al

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 14 June 2007 18:57:13 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sched-desing.txt "design", not "desing" :-) > quote: > - batch scheduling. A significant proportion of computing-intensive tasks >benefit from batch-scheduling, where timeslices are long and

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-14 Thread Richard Freeman
Mike Doty wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: so do I actually use "+19"? the latter Yes, a -19 would certainly make for a VERY unusable system! I'm running a myth backend and I've found a few useful tricks: 1. Myth itself is run at nice -10. This was accomplished by editing the init.d script. 2

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-14 Thread Mike Doty
Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/14/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: >> > I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good setting for >> > PORTAGE_NICENESS that would allow some compiles in the background >> > without drastically effec

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/14/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good setting for > PORTAGE_NICENESS that would allow some compiles in the background > without drastically effecting MythTV? Or is there some bet

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good setting for > PORTAGE_NICENESS that would allow some compiles in the background > without drastically effecting MythTV? Or is there some better way to > do this with other software? > > I've fiddled arou

[gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good setting for PORTAGE_NICENESS that would allow some compiles in the background without drastically effecting MythTV? Or is there some better way to do this with other software? I've fiddled around with renicing mythfrontend but even going to -15 didn't