| 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" | |