GNU bug report logs - #29448
[wishlist] nice option for guix

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From: Matt Wette <matt.wette <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: [wishlist] nice option for guix
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:15:04 -0800

I have `niced' the daemon and --cores=1 but the niceness does not get translated to builds. 
I gutless desktop is unusable during the long builds. Please, please make it be nice.

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From: Matt Wette <matt.wette <at> gmail.com>
To: 29448 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29448: Acknowledgement ([wishlist] nice option for guix)
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:17:08 -0800

scratch that.
When I executed `guix pull' the processes were not niced, but once the builds started, the nice did seem to be there.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Matt Wette <matt.wette <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 29448-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29448: Acknowledgement ([wishlist] nice option for guix)
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 23:06:18 +0100

Matt Wette <matt.wette <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> scratch that.
> When I executed `guix pull' the processes were not niced, but once the builds started, the nice did seem to be there.

Good.  :-)  Build processes inherit the “nice” value from guix-daemon,
indeed.

Ludo’.

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