7224 – emerge - priority option

Bug 7224 - emerge - priority option

Summary: emerge - priority option

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-08-29 11:06 UTC by Rigo
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:38 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Rigo 2002-08-29 11:06:15 UTC

Nowadays my machine is compiling 80% of the time ;) ...I like it that way, so I
don't mind, but what I DO mind is losing my responsive desktop :'-(

I could imagine a -pr70 option, so emerge would only use 70%
processing-power..Ot am I thinking too simple again and should my first question
be: Is this even possible ? ;-D

Rigo

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-08-29 13:48:28 UTC

use the nice command

`man nice`

not sure if the forked processes will have the same priority as the parent 
though ...

Comment 2 Rigo 2002-08-29 14:19:51 UTC

Didn't know it, gonna try/test how emerge/gcc/ ea. reacts on this & report here...

Thanx,

Rigo

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-08-29 18:54:05 UTC

yeah, doing `nice --adjustment=10 emerge` should do it, re-open the bug if it 
doesnt (i just did an `nice --adjustment=19 emerge world -u` and it worked 
pretty smoothly

Comment 4 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-09-02 09:56:40 UTC

*** Bug 104595 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***