On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 23:15, Matthew Cannon Snow wrote:
> does top have any options that allow you to restrict or force a process to a
> lower priority?

What you want to do is called re-nicing.

From man top:
====
INTERACTIVE COMMANDS
Several single-key commands are recognized while top is running.   Some
are disabled if the s option has been given on the command line.
                                                                                       
                                               
...

r Re-nice  a process.  You will be prompted for the PID of the task,
  and the value to nice it to.  Entering a positve value will  cause
  a  process  to be niced to negative values, and lose priority.  If
  root is running top, a negative value can be  entered,  causing  a
  process  to get a higher than normal priority.  The default renice
  value is 10.  This command is not available in secure mode.
====

For more information, man nice.

-- 
Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://buscaluz.org/ AIM:StuartMJansen>

I've thought about becoming a defeatist, but I've decided it can't 
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