[GLLUG] Minimizing CPU usage

[Cory Spitz]

Try 'nice'.  `man nice` for details.
-Cory

On Wed, 19 May 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.
>
> --Brad Fears
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