On Sunday 19 Feb 2017 13:53:49 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when I > start (e.g.) Chromium which needs very much memory if you have a lot of > open tabs. > > In that case my system nearly freezes. I cannot even kill chrome. > What can I do in that case. (Remote login doesn't work either) > > Can I have any additional program (like Chromium) die if there is not > enough memory. > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut
I assume you know setting --jobs= and --load-average= in emerge or in your MAKEOPTS directive in /etc/portage/make.conf. You can also set PORTAGE_NICENESS in make.conf, which will be added to the nice value portage is running with. But these will not affect disk I/O bottlenecks. Consider running emerge with ionice[1] to control disk bottlenecks. [1] /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt -- Regards, Mick
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