On 2015-11-06, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote:
> dpb's great, especially since I rtfm'd enough to find the -I flag.
> But I'm trying to build and install ports on a machine and use it for
> something else at the same time. It's not like I've got a lot of
> machines.
>
> It seems like priority or niceness would need to get set on each
> process that's spawned. As far as I can see the same number would
> work everywhere. Or maybe have it take the number from an environment
> variable so it could be changed easily during the run.
If you use dpb with -DBUILD_USER=_pbuild then it should use the values
from that user's login class in /etc/login.conf :
#
# Building ports with DPB uses raised limits
#
pbuild:\
:datasize-max=infinity:\
:datasize-cur=4096M:\
:maxproc-max=1024:\
:maxproc-cur=256:\
:tc=default:
- one of the other things you can set in here is the priority.
> I always liked the ports system. it's always amazed me that all the
> pieces fit together and it works. I've rarely had trouble with it
> except when I try to circumvent it by using a newer version of
> something. I guess in that case I should make the newer version into
> a port.
Yes, that's usually the simplest approach.
