How to limit bandwidth usage of emerge in 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.

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

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

Of course, adjust your rate to your need.

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