Re: [gentoo-user] Running java apps with lower nice level

2003-02-09 Thread John Nilsson
> So, as root I tried to run: > > # nice --5 su - cedric -c someJavaApp > > It did run the java app under my username, but with a nice level of 0, not -5 > as expected. so basically you ran su with a nice level of -5 ? /John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Running java apps with lower nice level

2003-02-09 Thread Cedric Veilleux
> -g needs a process *group* id, which is something else again. Try using > -p instead. Ooh.. I thought a process group was a process and all its sub-processes.. It appears to be true in most cases at least.. The problem here is that most java apps spawns dozen of processes.. I do not want to r

[gentoo-user] Running java apps with lower nice level

2003-02-09 Thread Cedric Veilleux
Hi, I am trying to speed up these java apps... I thought increasing their priority to give them more CPU time could help.. # pstree -p init(1)-+-agetty(1354) |---java(16123)---java(16124)-+-java(16125) # renice -10 -g 16123 renice: 16123: getpriority: No such process # renice -1