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 :-) -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A young man wrote to Mozart and said: Q: "Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing symphonies. Can you give me any suggestions as to how to get started?" A: "A symphony is a very complex musical form, perhaps you should begin with some simple lieder and work your way up to a symphony." Q: "But Herr Mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old." A: "But I never asked anybody how." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
