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Subject: Re: Recursive renice?
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> I'm curious whether there's an easy way to renice(8) a process and all=20
> of its children in one simple command. For example, I might start a=20
> recursive make, which spawns lots of processes, and want them all to=20
> change priority at once.

In this special case with recursive makes you could also interrupt the
build and re-start it with appropriate nice settings:

e.g. /usr/bin/nice -n 20 make build

Simon

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