How to limit bandwidth usage of emerge in Gentoo

• Author: Solène
• Date: 16 October 2017
• Tags: linux gentoo

NILIf 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#Fetch_commands).

To keep wget and just add the bandwidth limit, add this to

• */etc/portage/make.conf**:

FETCHCOMMAND="${FETCHCOMMAND} --limit-rate=200k"

Of course, adjust your rate to your need.