From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Valiquette Subject: Re: process priority Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 05:07:02 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <417387B6.3050806@ieee.org> References: <20041018082910.56565.qmail@web61001.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-reply-to: <20041018082910.56565.qmail@web61001.mail.yahoo.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Cc: Girish A Joshi sumit kalra a =E9crit : > Hi, >=20 > 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). >=20 > Regards, > Sumit >=20 You can also use renice, to change the process priority of an alread= y=20 running process. Unfortunatelly, you can only lower the priority of th= e=20 process. With renice, You need to be root to put higher the priority o= f=20 a running process. Still, it is usefull if you want to lower the=20 priority of a group of process that take lots of ressources on a system= =20 (ex. lowering the priority of a big "find" request all over your hardis= k=20 while you are doing something else more important). As far as I know, both nice and renice are available for every moder= n=20 Unix systems. Simon Valiquette - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs