[ale] renice

[william at witt-family.net (William)]

David Corbin wrote:
> I would like to launch skype, and adjust it's nice-ness so downward so it 
> takes priority over most things I'm doing.  Easy to do.  But, I don't want to 
> run it as root (seems like a bad idea).
>
> renice seems to be the answer, but I'm having trouble stringing everything 
> together in a script.  Suggestions?
>
>   

You should be able to just stick nice -# if front of the command with # 
being the niceness number you want.  If you leave off the -# then you'll 
get nice level 10.  I use this with my video transcoding scripts so that 
the computer is still usable during the process.

Will


Will