Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Herb Martin" To: Subject: RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority? Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:30:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Sign-LQC: HerbM@learnquick.com/2005-09-29 10:30:31/=zeunddau > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu] > Herb: > > It would be better to have a way to just start a CygWin job > in reduced > > priority. > > > > I am betting this is just ignorance on my part -- there is > a command > > right? > > Yes, and a very nice one... :-) See "man nice". Yes it is very nice. And so are you for helping. BTW: It' default value -n 10 (nice factor) produces a "belownormal" setting which is exactly what I wanted. Presumably, -n 19 (the max) would give "idle" priority or at max "low". -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/