Chriss Normon: set what to a niceness of -20?

[Chris Norman]

LOL, sorry, if you read the manual for nice (1), you'll see how to use the 
command more thoroughly. But basically, you type:
nice # CMD
Where:
# is a number from -20 (highest) to 20 (lowest), which is the priority at 
which the command runs.
CMD is a command string.

So you could do something like:

nice -20 speech-dispatcher
To run speech-dispatcher with the highest priority, or:

nice 20tar xf archive.tar.gz
To untar archive.tar.gz with the lowest priority.

Nice without arguments shows the current niceness (has always been 0 - 
average for me).

HTH,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Hinton" <keithint38 at CommSpeed.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 12:55 AM
Subject: Chriss Normon: set what to a niceness of -20?


> What are you talking about? Set what to -20?
> Regards-Keith
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