process priority

process priority

[Girish A Joshi]

can i set higher priority for a process in RHL 8.0.
If yes, then how to go about it?
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Re: process priority

[sumit kalra]

Hi,

You can use the 'nice' utility (man nice). To change
the priority of a process programatically, you can use
the nice() function (man 2 nice).

Regards,
Sumit

 --- Girish A Joshi <gaj@fluent.co.in> wrote: 
> can i set higher priority for a process in RHL 8.0.
> If yes, then how to go about it?
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Re: process priority

[Simon Valiquette]

sumit kalra a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> You can use the 'nice' utility (man nice). To change
> the priority of a process programatically, you can use
> the nice() function (man 2 nice).
> 
> Regards,
> Sumit
> 

   You can also use renice, to change the process priority of an already 
running process.  Unfortunatelly, you can only lower the priority of the 
process.  With renice, You need to be root to put higher the priority of 
a running process.  Still, it is usefull if you want to lower the 
priority of a group of process that take lots of ressources on a system 
(ex. lowering the priority of a big "find" request all over your hardisk 
while you are doing something else more important).

   As far as I know, both nice and renice are available for every modern 
Unix systems.

Simon Valiquette

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