i want all emerge stuff (looking up the db, compilation and such) be niced. That is executed with lower priority. i already put 'nice -n 20' in the bin/emake file, but not all ebuild use emake, and compilation is only a part of what i would like to be niced. Adding a option in make.conf should be quick, clean and easy, isn't it ? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
This is taken from /etc/make.conf of portage 2.0.48 which is marked stable as of yesterday. # PORTAGE_NICENESS provides a default increment to emerge's niceness level. # Note: This is an increment. Running emerge in a niced environment will # reduce it further. Default is unset. #PORTAGE_NICENESS=3
Nothing to do, I'd say - closing.