> > 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

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