Re: Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Nikos" == Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@xxxxxxxx> 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
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