On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-1] saravanan sachithanantham wrote: ~ --- "Nasikkar, Ashutosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~ wrote: > hi, ~ > ~ > can we increase and/or decrease the priority of ~ > these processes "dynamically", so that i can choose ~ > which process gets the maximum and which one ~ > gets the minimum CPU TIME. ~ ~ I suppose u have to use the nice command or the nice ~ system call if u want to do it in ~ programmatically....but for nice to have an negative ~ increment u will have to be the super user....also can
"renice" is what the original poster is looking for. nice is helpful only while starting a process. -- Amit Upadhyay -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
