> > 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
> nohup nice 18 emerge --update package 2&1> ~/emerge.log & I don't think so. This will do nothing if the kids game on a different computer. The concept of lowering a process priority is flawed in this case as well, limiting the CPU resources it can take up has little to do with how much network bandwidth the process can take up. The only thing which helps properly is to do appropriate network shaping on your home's firewall. I've seen setups for this but can't remember where. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
