On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> Shouldn't nicing it to the lowest level mean it only runs in idle time
>> anyway? Or does it display things when running?
>
>I need to try various nice values and pay more attention, but I could
>"feel" it's presence when it's running at nice=1. It's all numerical
nice=19 is the LOWEST priority, nice=-20 is the HIGHEST. Negative
numbers are only available to root. So, when you moved it from 0 to 1,
you didn't really do all that much. Try sending it all the way to 19.
-Michael
>computation and soaks up lots of CPU. Memory isn't a problem for me (I
>have 256MB). It doesn't display anthing, just a stream of progress prints
>to stdout that you can /dev/null.
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