Bug 27361

Summary:	Cannot emerge with low priority
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Tiago Freire <tiago.freire>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tiago Freire 2003-08-26 08:13:45 UTC

I want to keep working while emerge is compiling stuff, but even with gentoo-sources 
preemptible etc. it still gets slow esp. with other process intensive tasks. I, for 
example, have to have a vmware working because of corel 10 and outlook + windows 
VPN + Office + Adobe Acrobat (not reader). (I could dual boot, I know). But having the 
update running unnoticed, using only the idle machine time, even if it takes 2x ~10x 
longer to compile is not a problem to me, and will not be a problem for many other 
users. I think there should be a setting in make.conf , defaulting to normal, but which 
the user can set to "low" or "idle", or even "high" if he wishes. Thanks for the 
attention.

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-26 10:22:13 UTC

Try PORTAGE_NICENESS