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From: "James Homuth" <james@the-jdh.com>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:54:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35d301ca2280$142ecc50$6400a8c0@quan> (raw)

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I just got Gnome set up completely on a 5-year-old laptop with 512 MB of RAM
running on a P4, and am sort of halfway in the middle of playing with it. In
the process, I'm discovering I still need to install a few things. Just one
problem. I emerge said things, and the system flatlines until such time as
the compilation(s) are done--load is currently sitting at 2.1+. Are there
any make.conf settings I can tweak so that I can still actually use the
system while things compile, or would I be better off setting things to
compile, throwing in a movie, and coming back when they're done? Thanks for
any pointers.

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-08-21 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-21 16:54 James Homuth [this message]
2009-08-21 17:02 ` [gentoo-user] May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome? 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
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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