On Thursday 18 October 2001 05:50, Anke & Max wrote: > Ron Bouwhuis said on Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:58 PM > > > If it IS hogging CPU, just run it with a lower > > priority. The command to do that is called "nice". > > > > Simply run: nice find <whatever> > > > > and nice will give it (by default) a priority of 10 > > (the higher the number, the lower the priority - go > > figure). >
The priorities go from 20 (lowest) to -20 As a user you may nice/renice your processes ONLY in a plus direction. Root can of course make processes higher. A Priority of 20 means it will run only if nothing else wants CPU time. Now if you want to have some fun nicing/renicing processes, there is psDoom available where you shoot pidMonsters wounding them to renice processes and killing them to kill processes. It is GPL but you will need to find a Doom WAD file to use. Civileme > I guess this leaves you with an open ended range of priorities. > Whereas if you started with 10 as the most important > where would you go after 1? > > Max > > > --- Matt Greer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on 10/16/01 10:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I just did a search, via Find File from KDE tools > > > > > > menu, and the whole > > > > > > > system slowed way down for 20 minutes ... it's > > > > > > still barely doing anything. > > > > > > > Just closing a window takes a few minutes. > > > > > > > > Is this related to doing a file search or is > > > > > > something else going on? > > > > > > Did you try running "top"? Type that into a console > > > and it will show you how > > > much resources each program is taking. If find file > > > is taking a lot of > > > resources, then it's probably the culprit. Although > > > it shouldn't be doing > > > that, I can find files on my machine just fine > > > without any problems. > > > > > > Matt > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at > > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from > > > > MandrakeSoft? > > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > > http://personals.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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