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" | |