From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mee0M-0000Bh-N8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:58:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F4EBE05E9; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:58:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0CEDE05E9 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:58:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Aug 2009 23:58:43 -0000 Received: from p5485226E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.34.110] by mail.gmx.net (mp037) with SMTP; 22 Aug 2009 01:58:43 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19eSKZnbt5exG2n5vPbPghf6NQZqejqpn6G4LfBTf bJ8xUIxs5UKPe+ Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:58:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:58:42 +0200 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? Message-ID: <20090821235842.GA6216@solfire> References: <35d301ca2280$142ecc50$6400a8c0@quan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.59 X-Archives-Salt: 56059006-12c6-4362-a63e-641994b9da12 X-Archives-Hash: 2dc9e737357b64668f33aafe5973cb8f > > 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 -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.