Re: nice configure

2009-01-10 Thread William Davis
On Jan 9, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Adam Mercer wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 22:02, William Davis frs...@bellsouth.net wrote: AFAIK the nice command has been broken for a very long time. Just bring up Activity Monitor and check it out. You will fine the %CPU used by nice processes is always

Re: nice configure

2009-01-10 Thread Joshua Root
William Davis wrote: On Jan 9, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Adam Mercer wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 22:02, William Davis frs...@bellsouth.net wrote: AFAIK the nice command has been broken for a very long time. Just bring up Activity Monitor and check it out. You will fine the %CPU used by nice

Re: nice configure

2009-01-10 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jan 10, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Joshua Root wrote: I just tested on 10.5.6 by running 'nice nbench', and both Activity Monitor and top show it using ~99% CPU... A processes' nice factor can generally only be seen to produce results when there is enough contention for CPU resources that it

Re: nice configure

2009-01-10 Thread Adam Mercer
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 13:11, William Davis frs...@bellsouth.net wrote: Really Adam? Please show me where in this print of top I can see that: Sorry, ignore me. The terminal I was running top in when I wrote that email was in an ssh session running on a Linux box, and top on linux shows the

Using a password-protected mirror

2009-01-10 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Is there a way to use a password-protected mirror with MacPorts? See, I've enjoyed using the new MacPorts 1.7.0 feature where you can easily add mirrors by editing dports/_resources/port1.0/fetch/ mirror_sites.tcl. I've set up each of the machines on my local network to make their