justin bengtson wrote: > is there a way to re-nice a command besides top? better yet, is > there a way to set the nice value of a command at the moment of > execution (so i don't have to use top)?
>From the command line, you can use nice or renice. jogger-egg ~> nice +5 sleep 30 & [1] 3584 jogger-egg ~> ps l F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 000 1000 1132 1080 10 0 2344 1368 rt_sig S pts/1 0:00 -csh 000 1000 3584 1132 5 5 1116 356 nanosl SN pts/1 0:00 sleep 30 000 1000 3585 1132 17 0 2812 1072 - R pts/1 0:00 ps l jogger-egg ~> renice +13 3584 3584: old priority 5, new priority 13 jogger-egg ~> ps l F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 000 1000 1132 1080 10 0 2348 1372 rt_sig S pts/1 0:00 -csh 000 1000 3584 1132 13 13 1116 356 nanosl SN pts/1 0:00 sleep 30 000 1000 3588 1132 17 0 2812 1072 - R pts/1 0:00 ps l jogger-egg ~> wait [1] Done sleep 30 jogger-egg ~> Note that to decrease a process's niceness you have to be superuser. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
