From: pk@pk.invalid   
      
   On Friday 20 June 2008 14:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:   
      
   > On a long emerge I wish to do something like:   
   >   
   >    nice -n 5 emerge -auvDN world   
   >   
   > The python process runs at a nice value of 5 that way, but the compiler   
   > (and anything else called by emerge) doesn't :P   
   >   
   > Any way I can achieve what I want?   
      
   Look up "PORTAGE_NICENESS" in /etc/make.conf. Not sure it does what you want   
   though.   
      
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