On Tuesday 05 April 2011 15:59:18 James wrote:
> Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > The warnings were generated last time the cron job run chkrootkit. I
> > think that the box was rather busy in the middle of emerging stuff at
> > the time, so I wonder if that had something to do with it.
>
> If your hypothesis is correct, it presents an interesting opportunity.
> How to dynamically priortize (renice) processes that sporadically
> run at the same time.
>
> :-(
>
> A while back, (few months?) there was a discussion about how to
> limit processor by settings in make.conf to restrict the load.
> There were several approaches listed in the thread.
> Maybe there's a scriptable (cron-able) solution on limiting
> the load on the machine? I think you even contributed to
> the thread?
I think you are referring to the following:
MAKEOPTS="-j --load-average=5"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-va -j --load-average=5"
These limit the load-average to 5. As long as the load is below this number,
additional make/compile/emerge processes can be spawned.
--
Joost
