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Re: "nice"ing processes

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: luomat@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: "nice"ing processes
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:58:48 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199701151536.HAA29824@xxxxxxxx> from "Timothy J Luoma" at Jan 15, 97 10:36:03 am

Timothy J Luoma wrote:
>say I want to run a CPU intensive program (like gzip on a large  
>file) and want to do so with the least amount of impact  
>(cpu/whatnot).
>
>What should I do?

nice it.  With nice(1).

example% nice gzip large_file &

>                   Running it in the background doesn't seem to  
>make that much of a difference.

If you have the BG_NICE option set, jobs started in the background will
be niced automatically.

-zefram

References:
- "nice"ing processes
  - From: Timothy J Luoma

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