[106781] trunk/base/doc/macports.conf.in

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 8, 2013, at 10:02, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> On Jun 8, 2013, at 3:40 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>> -# Lowered scheduling priority (0-20) to use for make when building ports
>>> +# Lowered scheduling priority to use for make(1) during builds. Accepted
>>> +# values are 0 (normal priority) through 20 (lowest priority).
>>> #buildnicevalue		0
>> 
>> All commands run in the configure, build and destroot phases are given this nice value. It's not specific to make(1).
> 
> So I don't see any MacPorts-imposed limitations on nice value in the code. Could one use negative values if macportsuser is "root"? Is that even worth mentioning?

I've never tried it!

But the purpose of the directive is to let users make MacPorts "nicer" and not take over the resources of the machine, not to make it take more resources than it already does, so I wouldn't mention it.