Ernie Schroder wrote: >Actually Neil, you're right, the 8 hours that it takes to build OO is not down >time, but try playing poker on-line while it's running. I can never remember >to do those long builds while I sleep so I end up, in this case, and for >firefox, going for the immediate gratification. > > Allow me to help make it so you won't even know it is compiling. I wouldn't want it to slow down your playing poker. ;) Put this in make.conf:
># ># PORTAGE_NICENESS provides a default increment to emerge's niceness level. ># Note: This is an increment. Running emerge in a niced environment will ># reduce it further. Default is unset. >PORTAGE_NICENESS=1 > 1 or above is fine. My KDE runs at 0 so it gets enough priority to make it seem it is not compiling anything at all. Someone mentioned running a CPU at 95 % before. I run folding on all my rigs so it is going to run anyway whether I am compiling OO.O or not. Dale:-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
