[ale] renice

[William]

David Corbin wrote:
> 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.
>   
I does not complain on my system (Ubuntu 7.04).  Nice level 0-10 should 
be available to normal users.

Will