From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:12:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8F37E0.3080902@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090821235842.GA6216@solfire>
meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>> 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
>
>
In your make.conf file.
Dale
:-) :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-22 0:12 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
2009-08-22 0:12 ` Dale [this message]
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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