> On May 27, 2016, at 1:47 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On May 25, 2016, at 5:07 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > >> On May 25, 2016, at 14:42 , Adam Dershowitz wrote: >> >>> You can also manually change it for a single install, for example by using >>> build.jobs. Such as: >>> sudo port install port_whatever_name build.jobs=4 >>> and then, for that specific install it will attempt to use 4 cores. This >>> can be handy to reduce the number of cores used, from the default, so that >>> you can do other things on the machine while building. > > Instead, consider changing buildnicevalue in macports.conf from 0 to a > greater number, up to 20. When MacPorts is configured to be "nice" it means > that if other programs running on your computer need CPU time, they'll get it > first. >
Can this also be done on the command line for a specific install, instead of changing the config file? _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
