How-to reprio gcc (by default)?
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Wed Mar 21 01:23:12 UTC 2007
Gary Kline wrote:
> Guys,
>
> This may grab some interest from those running dog-slow servers
> and using a GUI env. (Gotta fess up and admit it took me a
> couple years in the late 80's before I would touch Sun's NeWS.
> Then I got hooked on using multiple xterms; the rest is history.)
>
> Unless I'm having severe delusions, by tweaking the NICE
> priorities on a bunch on std and added binaries, on my 400MHz.
> Kayak (with gnome-lite), I'm getting good performance. Later
> this year (or whenever hands can help me rob my junk Kayak's
> memory) I'll boost the SRAM from 192 to 512MB. That ought to
> allow me to run even more smoothly.
>
> The tuning so far has been done entirely by-hand. One example is
> setting the sendmail priority from a nice of 0 down to 7. I've
> nice'd xload down to 20; increased firefox to -17, and so forth.
> top runs very well niced at 19 with "-s5". And it does keep the
> 5-second update fairly well. I don't care about knowing what
> the system is doing every second (or default two seconds). But
> it's nice to know how things are generally going. ....So now for
> some questions: I'm thinking of writing a script that, once it
> know that X is running (and gnome/kde/<<whatever>> is in the
> table) will re-nice everything to my tastes. Is there any way of
> setting things to run at a lower or higher nice value, other than
> by-hand or by-script? Since I'm not that concerned with having a
> port built in K minutes or N hours (or M days :-(), can I set gcc
> down to 5 or 7 or whatever value? Any kernel hackers or *real*
> sysadmins who can clue me in?
>
> If my backup server is still running in a few month, I'll write
> up an article on "system tuning" and put it on my BSD site.
>
> thanks for any/all thoughts,
>
> gary
Gary,
Seems like /etc/login.conf is the winner if you're looking into setting
the global priority to something a bit lower :).. but if everything runs
at the same priority won't all your processes be slow at the same speed :)?
-Garrett
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