Dave Nebinger posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:47:16 -0400:
> I eventually killed it and system load dropped back to normal. Commented out > the PORTAGE_NICENESS value and emerged boost again. > > This time the system pegged again, but the whole process was finished in 10 > minutes. Note that if you use ccache or the like, and it was fairly close to completion when it was killed, the 10 minute emerge wouldn't be unusual in any case, because it wasn't redoing all that work compiling, but simply pulling it out of ccache. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list