[Nix-dev] nice process priority while compiling?

Eelco Dolstra e.dolstra at tudelft.nl
Thu Nov 20 21:11:00 CET 2008


Marc Weber wrote:

> Can I tell nix to use lowest priority while realising derivations?

In NixOS, you could modify the nix-daemon Upstart job to run nix-worker --daemon
at a lower priority.  The builders should inherit its niceness.

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