[ale] renice

[David Corbin]

On Sunday 19 August 2007 20:13, William wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > I would like to launch skype, and adjust it's nice-ness so downward so it
> > takes priority over most things I'm doing.  Easy to do.  But, I don't
> > want to run it as root (seems like a bad idea).
> >
> > renice seems to be the answer, but I'm having trouble stringing
> > everything together in a script.  Suggestions?
>
> You should be able to just stick nice -# if front of the command with #
> being the niceness number you want.  If you leave off the -# then you'll
> get nice level 10.  I use this with my video transcoding scripts so that
> the computer is still usable during the process.

Only if you're root.  If you're not root, it complains.
-- 
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