[olug] Running programs with nice

[Jay Swackhamer]

There's a directive in your /etc/make.conf


#
# PORTAGE_NICENESS provides a default increment to emerge's niceness level.
#     Note: This is an increment. Running emerge in a niced environment will
#     reduce it further. Default is unset.
#PORTAGE_NICENESS=3
#


> Is there a way to change the default nice value for a program?
>
> I'm using gentoo and I'd like emerge (like yum or rpm) to always run
> with a nice level of 19.
>
> I can start it with `nice -n 19 emerge` but I'm lazy and want to just
> type `emerge` and have it run with a very low priority.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
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