On the last episode (Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:14:34 +0200), Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> said:

> > 
> >  I wonder if I can somehow limit CPU usage when compiling.
> >  I mean, like ALTQ on network flow, maybe I could say pkgsrc, make or else "don't use mode that 50% CPU"
> >  or "slow down so that load avg don't go up to 0.7".
> >  Not ure it makes sense though :)
> > 
> >  Maybe "nice -n 20 make package clean" ?
> 
> Yes, nice should worlk. This is what the bulk build script does.
> 

 OK, I compiled Apache2 till the end with the nice command.

 This afternoon, I've started a "while [ true ]; wget -O /dev/null http://myU10/; sleep 3; done" from another box to see if the U10 keeps alive when not totally IDLE. A weird thing is that it is 99% IDLE and from 1 to 2 of load average... I know load average sometimes don't say anything but I'm still surprised of such values...
If the box is still UP tomorrow, I'll try to compile a bigger thing (with gtk2, ...) with the "nice" command.

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