Re: Changing process priority
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:23:41PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could please tell me how to change the priority for
> a process. Actually what I want to do is give more (most) processor priority
> to ffmpeg when encoding videos.
Read the man page on "nice". If you want to give it highest priority
you'd use "nice -20 command ...", but it's usually a better idea to use
-10 or -15 instead to just give it an advantage over most of your other
processes (which usually run at 0).
--
Michael Heironimus
Reply to: