My college group actually talked about this 20 years ago v the name we came up with: The Uniburn. Portmanteau of unibrow and sideburn

All the comments here are great. One other suggestion I didn’t see: use chrt to start the build process with the sched_batch policy. It’s lower than sched_other, which most processes will be in, so the compilation processes should be bumped off the CPU for virtually everyone else

He’s just advanced, but you’ll never reach that state these days in afraid.