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