Re: reduce priority of large port builds, e.g. firefox, gcc4x

2012-08-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Aug 29 16:52:53 2012 > Is it possible to reduce priority > of port building processes with > something like "nice +19 make" (tcsh syntax)? Sure, I do it all the time. ok, thanks. I'll try it next time. Anton __

Re: reduce priority of large port builds, e.g. firefox, gcc4x

2012-08-29 Thread Ivan Voras
On 29/08/2012 15:56, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Is it possible to reduce priority > of port building processes with > something like "nice +19 make" (tcsh syntax)? Sure, I do it all the time. You may even want to make a shell alias in your cshrc, i.e. alias make nice +19 make (or something like

Re: reduce priority of large port builds, e.g. firefox, gcc4x

2012-08-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:56:07 +0100 (BST) Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Is it possible to reduce priority > of port building processes with > something like "nice +19 make" (tcsh syntax)? > > Here's a typical scenario for a large build > (actually building gcc-4.7 and firefox in parallel): >

reduce priority of large port builds, e.g. firefox, gcc4x

2012-08-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Is it possible to reduce priority of port building processes with something like "nice +19 make" (tcsh syntax)? Here's a typical scenario for a large build (actually building gcc-4.7 and firefox in parallel): last pid: 54736; load averages: 5.27, 5.38, 5.11up 9+15:37: