Messages in this thread | | | From | James Cloos <> | Subject | Re: Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations | Date | Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:34:50 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Nikos" == Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> writes:
Nikos> On 09/21/2009 10:47 PM, James Cloos wrote: >> is a great way to trigger the problem. As is using Gentoo's portage >> to install/upgrade anything.
Nikos> Fortunately, this is completely (at least here) solved by putting Nikos> those in make.conf:
Nikos> PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 Nikos> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
I had NICENESS set, but had never noticed that PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND was available. I'll give that a test. Thanks.
-JimC -- James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
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