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From: meino.cramer@gmx.de
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:58:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090821235842.GA6216@solfire> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h6mmnn$f1b$1@ger.gmane.org>

> 
>   PORTAGE_NICENESS=19
> 
> Is best.  However, also very important is "I/O nice".  Setting an 
> ionice value of "idle" will result in portage not blocking your other 
> applications whey they need to do disk I/O:
> 
>   PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
> 
> This needs a kernel newer than 2.6.16 and it has to be configured to 
> use the CFQ scheduler.  You know if that's the case if this command:
> 
>   zgrep CFQ /proc/config.gz
> 
> says:
> 
>   CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y
>   CONFIG_DEFAULT_CFQ=y
> 

Hi,
where can I set PORTAGE_NICENESS and PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND ?

Kind regards,
mcc

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-21 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-21 16:54 [gentoo-user] May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome? James Homuth
2009-08-21 17:02 ` Paul Hartman
2009-08-21 17:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-21 18:01   ` Arttu V.
2009-08-21 23:58   ` meino.cramer [this message]
2009-08-22  0:12     ` Dale
2009-08-22  0:13     ` Paul Hartman
2009-08-22 17:06   ` James Homuth
2009-08-23  5:19     ` Paul Hartman

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