"J.C. Roberts" <jcroberts@designtools.org> writes:

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> as suggested in release(8), I would guess it has something to do with
> the pain the developers endure when building releases on very slow
> archs

It's always better to run batch processing with nice. The only reason
is not to affect normal work on the machine.

This of course implies that it doesn't make sense to use nice when the
machine is only doing this one lengthy job.

Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com> writes:
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> > run the rebuild niced?
>
> I don't. I want it to be done as soon as possible.

This doesn't give you much. But it may hurt responsiveness of your
system as a whole.

Regards, Frank