Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:23:06 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How-to reprio gcc (by default)? Message-ID: <460088FA.6050703@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070321003056.GA66954@thought.org> References: <20070321003056.GA66954@thought.org>
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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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