77123 – It would be nice to be able to limit resources consumed by emerge

Bug 77123 - It would be nice to be able to limit resources consumed by emerge

Summary: It would be nice to be able to limit resources consumed by emerge

Status:	VERIFIED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Community Relations
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Developer Relations (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Community Relations Team

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Reported:	2005-01-08 03:48 UTC by Frédéric Souchon
Modified:	2005-01-08 04:15 UTC (History)
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Description Frédéric Souchon 2005-01-08 03:48:39 UTC

While using gentoo as workstation it is uncomfortable when emerge uses 100% CPU ans 100% memory.

Could an option be included to allow the end user to limit CPU and memory dedicated to emerge?

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-08 03:55:00 UTC

Use PORTAGE_NICENESS in /etc/make.conf.

Comment 2 Frédéric Souchon 2005-01-08 04:00:42 UTC

Ok, this should limit CPU resource consumption but what about memory alloction which is the greatest problem :)

Comment 3 Frédéric Souchon 2005-01-08 04:08:59 UTC

I reopen the bug (I forgot to do so): It would be nice to enable to limit the ammount of memory usable by portage.

Comment 4 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-08 04:12:26 UTC

Merge daemontools and use the softlimit command if you need to limit memory.

Comment 5 Frédéric Souchon 2005-01-08 04:15:46 UTC

Thanks