On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:04 +0100, Johannes Fahrenkrug wrote: > I put a "nice -n 19" in front of the tar, rsync and emerge metadata > commands because normally calling emerge-webrsync renders my box > unusable for 15 to 20 minutes. You still notice a difference when using > "nice" but everything seems to be at least noticably smoother than before.
Instead of hardcoding the nice value, use PORTAGE_NICENESS. Here is how it is done in revdep-rebuild # Obey PORTAGE_NICENESS PORTAGE_NICENESS=$(portageq envvar PORTAGE_NICENESS) [ ! -z "$PORTAGE_NICENESS" ] && renice $PORTAGE_NICENESS $$ > /dev/null Regards, Paul -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
