Re: process priority in linux
Chad Glendenin (chad.glendenin@yale.edu)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:37:18 -0500 (EST)
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:25:33 -0500
> From: Tim Lovelock <timothy.lovelock@yale.edu>
> To: linux-list@pantheon.yale.edu
> Subject: process priority in linux
>
> Can anyone point me to a good doc on processes in general under
> linux/unix, and more specifically on how to set priority (if this is
> possible)
>
priority is set with 'nice'. superuser can give things more priority, that is,
a lower nice number. -20 is highest priority, 19 the lowest.
> I have a process that I would like to have use any _free_ clock cycles,
> but that would ease off if any other process needed the cpu.
>
hmm, dunno about that one.
ccg