On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Michael Stenner wrote: > >I need to try various nice values and pay more attention, but I could > >"feel" it's presence when it's running at nice=1. It's all numerical > > nice=19 is the LOWEST priority, nice=-20 is the HIGHEST. Negative > numbers are only available to root. So, when you moved it from 0 to 1, > you didn't really do all that much. Try sending it all the way to 19.
The default is 1. I did set it to 19 for awhile, but not long enough to decide if I could live with it that way for 2 years. Once the novelty wears off, I figure running it only when I'm away from the PC will be plenty good enough. The program checkpoints state, so you can kill and restart it at will without loosing anything. Of course, you could just stop/cont it as well. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] sever is down right now so I can't do any more tests at the moment. ...RickM...
