On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 15:38, Nick Rout wrote:
> I want to run a compling job with lower priority, so it does not detract too much 
> from desktop use and stuff.
> The gentoo command to load or update a new package is
> 
> emerge package ; or
> 
> emerge -u world
> 
> This starts any number of child processes. gcc a million times etc. 
> If I run emerge with a lower priority, will all the child processes run at that 
> priority?
> And how exactly do I do this anyway??

nice -19 emerge package 
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