[CentOS] Starting a process at a specified nice value.
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Thu Aug 18 17:02:15 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:49, CentOS-List at jamesplace.net wrote:
> I wonder if someone could point me to the appropriate docs for my question? If
> I would like to cause my system to always start 'smbd' processes at priority
> 7 for example, how would I go about doing that.
>
> I'm assuming there's a better way than running a cronjob every minute to
> renice existing processes.
>
> I'd appreciate some help pointing me in the right direction.
Check out the nice command.
NICE(1) User Commands
NICE(1)
NAME
nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
SYNOPSIS
nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]
DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND with an adjusted scheduling priority. With no
COMMAND,
print the current scheduling priority. ADJUST is 10 by default.
Range
goes from -20 (highest priority) to 19 (lowest).
-n, --adjustment=ADJUST
increment priority by ADJUST first
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
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