Re: Changing process priority
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:59:31PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote:
> 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).
Er, I think you'd want to use "nice --20" or "nice -n -20" or even
"nice --adjustment=-20"; "nice -20" implies a nice level ov positive
twenty whic is invalid; the highest numer (and lowest priority)
accepted is 19.
Sorry for the nitpick :-)
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