On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 4:17 PM Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@dabbelt.com> wrote:
> I call make quite regularly, and I almost always want to invoke it with
> at least a bit of nice to avoid it eating my whole machine. Since I can
> stick "-j$(nproc)" in my shell's default MAKEFLAGS I frequently end up
> being lazy and just typing "make", which I then have to kill in order to
> re-run as "nice -n10 make".
>
This sounds like a perfect case to use a shell alias or function in your
shell's rcfile, or a shell script in your person bin directory. i.e.,
something like
alias make='nice -n10 make'
or maybe
make() { nice -n10 /usr/bin/make "$@"; }
Philip Guenther
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