Wil Reichert wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Mark Haney <mha...@ercbroadband.org> wrote: >> I've been extremely busy lately and have let my updates get way behind. >> Part of that is my need to keep kde-libs-3.5 on my system for K3b, etc, >> part of that is just too much else to do. >> >> The problem I've encountered is when I try to do an update while I'm >> working, my system can slow to a crawl, on a big compile usually. I've >> tried using nice to manage how much CPU the compile gets so I can >> function while it's building, but it's killing the output so I can't see >> what's going on. >> >> Is there another way to use nice, or to fix that problem? Or another >> way to manage CPU usage during an emerge? > > I've got PORTAGE_NICENESS="15" set in my make.conf. Makes all emerges > unnoticable on my system. > > Wil >
Learn something everyday. I did not know of that setting. Cool. Thanks for the heads up. -- Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415
