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Title: How to limit bandwidth usage of emerge in Gentoo
Author: Solène
Date: 16 October 2017
Tags: linux gentoo
Description:
If for some reason you need to reduce the download speed of emerge
when downloading sources you can use a tweak in portage's make.conf as
explained
[in the
handbook](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Portage/Variables#F
etch_commands).
To keep wget and just add the bandwidth limit, add this to
**/etc/portage/make.conf**:
FETCHCOMMAND="${FETCHCOMMAND} --limit-rate=200k"
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