Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Friday, 22 September 2023 02:13:08 BST Dale wrote:
> Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote:
> > So I feel I should add my own 2 cents to the pile....or possibly 25 cents
> > due to inflation.
> > 
> > 
> > PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
> > PORTAGE_SCHEDULING_POLICY="idle"
> > 
> > Those 2 together in make.conf have had a noticeable effect on multitasking
> > for me.  I still wouldn't recommend allocating all of your cores to
> > emerge, but emerging with idle priority keeps your tasks a little higher
> > up in the mix.
> > 
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Laurence Perkins <lperkins@openeye.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2023 3:26 PM
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges
> 
> I had the first one, little different for my rig, but I added the second
> one just now.  I'll be testing this tomorrow or Sunday, depending on
> packages, maybe both.  lol 
> 
> Sometimes I wish they would announce when they add features.  Rich, you
> frequent this list.  If you hear of something new, could you post it? 
> This may not be NEW but it is new to me.  No idea when it got added. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 

Loads of tweaks are described here, which I wasn't aware of:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_niceness

As well as the man pages for make.conf and sched.  I'm not sure what default 
values are, if these variables are not set in make.conf.

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