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- From: pkerr@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Paul Kerr)
- Subject: Re: Can the priority of a running process be changed?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.061822.23947@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
- References: <1992Nov6.182510@helix.nih.gov>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 06:18:22 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Nov6.182510@helix.nih.gov> rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable) writes:
- >Is there any way to change the priority of a process AFTER it has
- >started running? We often have naive users who run compute intensive
- >tasks either in foreground or simply backgrounded with '&', and would
- >like to change the priority without forcing the user to restart his
- >calculation using 'nice'.
- >
-
- From the man page for nice(1)
- SEE ALSO
- csh(1), getpriority(2), nice(3V), pstat(8), renice(8)
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- From the man page for renice(8)
- NAME
- renice - alter nice value of running processes
-
- DESCRIPTION
- renice alters the scheduling nice value, and hence the
- priority, of one or more running processes. See nice(1) for
- a discussion of nice value and process scheduling priority.
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-
- Dats it Dats all.
-
- Cheers,
- Paul
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