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 1MeeDX-0003dy-LG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:12:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2415AE039A; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f207.google.com (mail-gx0-f207.google.com [209.85.217.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49AAE039A for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:12:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so1467594gxk.14 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:12:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XcpLLg7Dw9tA/RTJbpUUQmOpuC6262gjAfI0oDqAaPo=; b=r9TKI7168SocRRS5ag7+xXXWv2spj7bDC8qIUM8t9tdXZjqGuU9891nUNMPSv4QSZ4 Shn88ifLqKs2iHI0OtD5/FGxbLoXy1hOM2D7vvBQJySq6ySUgolnKdq48Xqov7LuJvUI EKE9qsOVtGfHKrFpb7FFhJh62SBe9osq1sxus= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NTEQTQGQJWpKXdhEJWkVOPybxvQbMAqYxR3UrLvO5a/L9qSvHrp0NEVB80u30dmCbh eamUXp2y9dToZjy8evcjlI9nk9SQnl0StQI8fTWKRHbw3iM/GLzm9s4kEhInAsgnfBik Q61FlSBvGLIykrDPb/I0+SeVf9QI3sqygrpVk= Received: by 10.90.158.2 with SMTP id g2mr1383659age.92.1250899941295; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:12:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.163.14? (r163h14.dixie-net.com [64.89.163.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm724552agd.73.2009.08.21.17.12.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A8F37E0.3080902@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:12:16 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090628 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome? References: <35d301ca2280$142ecc50$6400a8c0@quan> <20090821235842.GA6216@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20090821235842.GA6216@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bf240de1-0957-4dda-900a-33262d0e73db X-Archives-Hash: f95537f272ea3a45276433a873130ebb 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 :-) :-)