Process priority

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, ghuul at email.cz wrote:

> Is there some way ho to assign priority (cpu time) for each process ?
> I'm using Samba server for PDF printing and in case of big printouts it
> could "eat" whole cpu time for few seconds, so i'd like to control it
> and give to this process lower priority.

Hi!

nice and renice are the commands to give the process lower priority.

in particular, whilst operating, you will want to check out renice(8).

HTH
Olaf


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