Hi, On 2008-02-04 13:45, Ermanno Baschiera wrote: > Hello, > I'm running my node on a Gentoo Linux machine. > You know... we gentooers sometimes have to compile updates and new > packages. Ok, we OFTEN have to compile stuff. :-) > During those compile sessions, my node pings higher and higher. Up to > 22sec! Also if there's heavy use of samba, my node gets slower.
You should be able to address slowdown during emerges by setting PORTAGE_NICENESS to e.g. 15 in make.conf, see http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_nice_and_PORTAGE_NICENESS. You could also edit run.sh(?) so the java-launching line reads something like "nice -10 java (...)" if it still seems necessary. Bob __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com