[GLLUG] Minimizing CPU usage
dpk
dpk at egr.msu.edu
Wed May 19 14:45:52 EDT 2004
Brad Fears wrote:
> I've done a bit of googling, and couldn't find an answer to this question,
> but is there a way or utility that would allow me to assign a lower
> priority to a process? I have htdig running on a slower box (via nightly
> cron), and I would like to prevent it from dominating all the server's
> resources while its running. I know Windows has a way to assign a lower
> priority to processes, so I suspect there must be a way to do it in Linux
> as well. Thanks.
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dpk
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