Nice emerges?

Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 1:19 am Post subject: Nice emerges?

Hey..

Could someone please tell me how to make emerge / make / etc. nice? I'm running a dedicated HLDS server and my updates cant take too much cpu power.

I would like to set emerge to compile stuff at nice 19.

Is there any convenient way to do this?

Thanks,
Matt
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gwydion · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 3:36 am Post subject:

I think just doing a

hertog · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 3:47 am Post subject:

both will work, technically....

Altho it seems that somehow the whole job prioritation of jobs that are nices and not nices has gone bonkers....

No matter how nice you renice, cpu intensive stuff still gets (on a loaded system) too much CPU....

Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:43 am Post subject:

ahh My worry was that since the emerge command laucnes soo many other proceses, that if I did a nice 19 emerge it would only mae the parent process nice, but not the children, so to speak.

casue after all when you monitor the cpu util under top during an emerge, most of the cpu us taken by the likes of cc1, cc2, python, etc. Not emerge itself.

Any thoughts on that?
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hertog · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 2:15 pm Post subject:

all children of a niced command have the same nice level as the parent