13722 – An option in make.conf that allows 'nice' to be used by default

Bug 13722 - An option in make.conf that allows 'nice' to be used by default

Summary: An option in make.conf that allows 'nice' to be used by default

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-01-11 10:07 UTC by Charles Goodwin
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:38 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Charles Goodwin 2003-01-11 10:07:13 UTC

For those of us who use gentoo as a desktop PC and frequently update, it would
be welcome to have an option to have the usage of 'nice' turned on by default.

(memory jogger)
'nice' makes a process run with a lower priority so there is little impact on
system performance.  'nice emerge x' (including nice emerge sync) allows the
system to remain responsive.

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-10 14:27:26 UTC

Although not directly what you are looking for, you can make a system-wide function for emerge:

emerge() {
 /usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/emerge $* 5
}

or something like that (bashscripting isn't my best point :)

Comment 2 Charles Goodwin 2003-03-10 17:22:31 UTC

kernels 2.5.65 and later will kill this... it'll be invalid by 2.6 so I'd mark it invalid now.

Comment 3 Narada Sage 2003-05-08 12:57:20 UTC

This has already been taken care of.  Look at bug 18868.

Comment 4 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-12 04:28:22 UTC

It's in make.conf.
PORTAGE_NICENESS