> Well as for monitoring, the nice value will not change unless it is
> reset by a user. As for setting it you'll want to look into the
> program /bin/nice.
Also, look into 'renice' to change the priority of a running
process, and look into 'top' for monitoring.
And to change it from within a script, see the setpriority command.
>From the Prog. Perl book:
<quote>
To "nice" your process down by four units (the same as executing
your program with nice(1)), try:
setpriority 0, 0, getpriority(0,0) + 4;
</quote>
---Larry
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