From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EU44m-0001aL-9B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:17:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9OFGnOq021776; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:16:49 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9OFEQqu006684 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:14:27 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EU41p-00061r-AX for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:14:25 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EU3xA-0000Qs-Rg for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:09:36 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:09:36 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:09:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: PORTAGE_NICENESS is not so nice... Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:02:51 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <200510240647.16996.dnebinger@joat.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 965d2c65-1577-4d5a-b710-a3933813a013 X-Archives-Hash: 9274a7f12541554bc89e05221964a055 Dave Nebinger posted <200510240647.16996.dnebinger@joat.com>, excerpted below, on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:47:16 -0400: > 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. Note that if you use ccache or the like, and it was fairly close to completion when it was killed, the 10 minute emerge wouldn't be unusual in any case, because it wasn't redoing all that work compiling, but simply pulling it out of ccache. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list