Anne Wilson, Friday 16 August 2002 20:16: > On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 10:20 pm, you wrote: > > Multitasking is really spending a few milliseconds on each task in turn. > > Renicing asks for a process to be given more (or less) time each turn - > > so an application feels more responsive, or gets more work done. 'top' > > shows the nice setting of each process. > > So if you re-nice, does it judge the amount of activity previous and > re-allocate based on that? Or do you somehow indicate what you want it to > do? > > Anne
You renice to an absolute value, not a relative one. Is that what you meant? Remember this is only a /request/ for a higher or lower priority - if nothing else was happening, something with a nice value of 20 could get up to 100%. I don't do any of this myself - if something's taking too long, I put the kettle on. RichardA
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