On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:55:23PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Efraim, > > On Mon, 19 May 2014 10:19:23 +0300 > Efraim Flashner <efraim.flash...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Also, nice -19 is higher priority than nice 19. > > > > No, it's not. When you run the "nice -19" it sets it to the lowest possible > priority. I see these processes in htop where the nice is set at 19 and I > cannot lower it at all.
If nice is not enough for your process, ask it to be verynice: http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/verynice/ "verynice is a nice(1)-like utility to throttle long running processes beyond what can be achieved by nice(1), by repeatedly suspending and resuming the process." -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
