On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: >>>> set PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 in /etc/make.conf >>> >>> I'll just hay "ah, ah, ah" at that one :P OK, I'll also say that it >>> doesn't work. Everything lags even with 19. >> >> Is that measurable? > > On my Gentoo at home, yes. The mouse cursor skips, scrolling gets > skippy/laggy too. I have a dual core e6...@3.33ghz with 4GB DDR2 RAM.
It's weird, I have the same CPU (overclock to 3.00GHz) and have no lags like that at all when compiling with portage_niceness of 19, it's totally transparent... in my kernel config i have it set to CFQ i/o scheduler, tickless system, preemptable kernel, SLAB... i don't know what else might cause it other than driver/hardware difference. I'm using an Nvidia chipset with sata_nv driver and SATA disks. I'm also using /dev/shm for the portage_tmpdir to reduce disk activity. Paul
