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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next prev 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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