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RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?
- From: "Herb Martin" <HerbM at learnquick dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:30:25 -0500
- Subject: RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
> Herb:
> > It would be better to have a way to just start a CygWin job
> in reduced
> > priority.
> >
> > I am betting this is just ignorance on my part -- there is
> a command
> > right?
>
> Yes, and a very nice one... :-) See "man nice".
Yes it is very nice. And so are you for helping.
BTW: It' default value -n 10 (nice factor) produces
a "belownormal" setting which is exactly what I wanted.
Presumably, -n 19 (the max) would give "idle" priority
or at max "low".
--
Herb Martin
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