From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:02:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a0908211002g20a608cubbfb0e6e6f1bde81@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35d301ca2280$142ecc50$6400a8c0@quan>
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, James Homuth<james@the-jdh.com> wrote:
> 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.
I've always set portage niceness to 19 (the maximum) on every Gentoo
system I've ever built and compiling is usually not noticeable at all.
I think in your case the biggest problem would be RAM, since compiling
often uses hundreds of megs at a time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-21 17:08 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 [this message]
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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