I think you misunderstood me Chris (or maybe I did not make myself clear) My downloads for my upgrades seem to slow down the kids online games on their computers.
As far as I understood nice does not effect the download - does it? Anyway - who pays the bills in our house? Robert Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 December 2003 4:40 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Nice On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:24, you wrote: > My kids hate the fact that my Gentoo upgrades take precedent over their > games. You can both have the best of both worlds if you were to start your emerges thus: su - Password: secretblah nohup nice 18 emerge --update package 2&1> ~/emerge.log & logout The update will now take place in the backgound at a very low priority, and probably won't even be noticed. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
