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 1MeXbL-0004Ch-81 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:08:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F541E02B0; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:08:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f172.google.com (mail-yw0-f172.google.com [209.85.211.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D874E02B0 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:08:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh2 with SMTP id 2so2879440ywh.2 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:08:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GDRNz5MmvWBHoJpdRV9Azo9nDufcrSLaeSMfiMup4M0=; b=tK4mvUxenEjib1M1PF50/LefCKo6m6sGlvMYtBE9lBn+d+RfCco5W9aTO87uRPdsCS 308cH0odZuqT5XOc7l7XdbaYc/1E+xNaaY91qlX3rMb7QXnDqGBcaXsg1dYdl2m9URPc jlCTDN+XThKdNS62Swl+1rhBRugPhTI5ve730= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=TRUyDgS6YJOqTgbQIbokYFeMwMNiQAkKSU4gi6Y9tbvLQQ0zCxvl/D1A6bsVt+K5tg oxV2zu5CgaxK0+ADoCVxZ4ukktsmEjkbX/LZgOGd7u2lnU8pXp2eMd5OyKF5B501tgZG 3kGwsdurpqGDZeQk94jGBPgBfKRTbI8BRJZDo= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.169.13 with SMTP id r13mr2671366ybe.89.1250874148658; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:02:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <35d301ca2280$142ecc50$6400a8c0@quan> References: <35d301ca2280$142ecc50$6400a8c0@quan> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:02:28 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ac3163fa489b433f Message-ID: <58965d8a0908211002g20a608cubbfb0e6e6f1bde81@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: aa1744c9-eaa7-4a2b-843d-43aa3944e030 X-Archives-Hash: 6abbe6c96370469918be8bb683179db1 On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, James Homuth 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.