Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:19:15 +0100 From: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Process priority Message-ID: <3F9CD503.9040702@geminix.org> In-Reply-To: <20031026231659.F52990@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <bnhe9o$v99$1@sea.gmane.org> <20031026231659.F52990@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
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Olaf Hoyer wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, ghuul@email.cz wrote:
>
>>Is there some way ho to assign priority (cpu time) for each process ?
>>I'm using Samba server for PDF printing and in case of big printouts it
>>could "eat" whole cpu time for few seconds, so i'd like to control it
>>and give to this process lower priority.
>
> nice and renice are the commands to give the process lower priority.
>
> in particular, whilst operating, you will want to check out renice(8).
Or if you consider it appropriate to give Samba only the available idle
time in this scenario you may also want to look at the idprio(1) command.
Uwe
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