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Authored by: SOX on Sep 18, '03 11:01:35AM

What I would like is some way of setting priorities on jobs. I've tried the ways I'm used to in linux using top and nice and renice and they dont seem to have an effect. Not sure why.



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Authored by: englabenny on Sep 19, '03 02:04:40PM

renice works for me, even though I don't use it. I tried for example to set Window Manager to very hight priority, and iTunes to very low. Dragging windows heavily around then compromised soundplay.



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Re: priorities
Authored by: sjk on Sep 20, '03 12:40:30AM
IIRC subprocesses will inherit the nice priority of their parent process. Run ps alwwx and check the NI column to check that.

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