I remember doing some sysdamin work as a student long ago in college and we'd have to track down rogue processes from students on the big shared unix box and re-nice them. It was fun to threaten people with re-nicing their long running processes. Could turn a 30 minute SPSS calcuation set into a several hour calculation (or more). Great way to scare grad students :)
Judah On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Ras Tafari <rastaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > :) nice! lol > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Ray Champagne <r...@raychampagne.com> wrote: >> >> I just asked the Unix nerd here what that was. Interesting, I learned >> something new today. time to go home, I guess! >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(Unix) >> >> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Ras Tafari <rastaf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> look at the cpu stats one: >>> >>> User: >>> System: >>> Nice: <---- nice! >>> Idle: >>> >>> :) >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Just downloaded iStats. Looks great. >>> > >>> > Yeah I haven't used outlook in 5 or 6 years, even before switching to >>> Mac. >>> > What a piece of shit software that is. I'm >>> > >>> > Free 2.83 >>> > Wired 1.17GB >>> > Active 3.15GB >>> > Inactive 874.6MB >>> > Used 5.18GB >>> > >>> > Eclipse and Railo/ACF are easily my biggest memory consumers. >>> > >>> > -Cameron >>> > >>> > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Ray Champagne <r...@raychampagne.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> >> >>> >> how much are you using now? Just curious. Outlook seems to be the >>> biggest >>> >> hog for me. >>> >> >>> >> if you haven't already bought it, iStats is the shit. >>> >> http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/ Love having all that graphy >>> goodness in >>> >> my menu bar. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346263 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
