From: Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@joat.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] PORTAGE_NICENESS is not so nice...
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:47:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510240647.16996.dnebinger@joat.com> (raw)
So I set PORTAGE_NICENESS to 19 in /etc/make.conf on my primary gentoo
desktop so I could do emerges in the background and still use my box...
Well tonight I emerged boost... The system maxed out and ran that way for an
hour without looking like it was going to complete anytime soon. Which
wouldn't have been so bad if the system wasn't pegged to the point of being
totally unresponsive under X.
I eventually killed it and system load dropped back to normal. Commented out
the PORTAGE_NICENESS value and emerged boost again.
This time the system pegged again, but the whole process was finished in 10
minutes.
So I'm starting to question how useful PORTAGE_NICENESS actually is... If
the system is pegged under niceness 19 and 0, but 0 completes in 10 minutes,
why would PORTAGE_NICENESS benefit me in any way?
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2005-10-24 10:47 Dave Nebinger [this message]
2005-10-24 11:16 ` [gentoo-dev] [OT] PORTAGE_NICENESS is not so nice Tomasz Mloduchowski
2005-10-24 15:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
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