On a long emerge I wish to do something like:

nice -n 5 emerge -auvDN world

The python process runs at a nice value of 5 that way, but the compiler
(and anything else called by emerge) doesn't :P

Any way I can achieve what I want?

On Friday 20 June 2008 14:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> On a long emerge I wish to do something like:
>
> nice -n 5 emerge -auvDN world
>
> The python process runs at a nice value of 5 that way, but the compiler
> (and anything else called by emerge) doesn't :P
>
> Any way I can achieve what I want?

Look up "PORTAGE_NICENESS" in /etc/make.conf. Not sure it does what you want
though.

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Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On a long emerge I wish to do something like:
>
> nice -n 5 emerge -auvDN world
>
> The python process runs at a nice value of 5 that way, but the compiler
> (and anything else called by emerge) doesn't :P
>
> Any way I can achieve what I want?

Have you set the PORTAGE_NICENESS ? Think that could override your nice
command when it comes to the compiler.

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pk wrote:
> On Friday 20 June 2008 14:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> On a long emerge I wish to do something like:
>>
>> nice -n 5 emerge -auvDN world
>>
>> The python process runs at a nice value of 5 that way, but the compiler
>> (and anything else called by emerge) doesn't :P
>
> Look up "PORTAGE_NICENESS" in /etc/make.conf. Not sure it does what you want
> though.

Thanks pk and J.O. Aho. It was an RTFM matter :P
(http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_nice_and_PORTAGE_NICENESS).

It does exactly what I want