[PLUG] kio_http is a pig

[Rogan Creswick]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:44 PM, drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> nice -19 {I believe thats the lowest priority but I may have it backwards, I
> haven't used nice in a few years}  <$PID or process name>

>From the nice(1) man page, on my debian box:

"Nicenesses  range from -20 (most favorable scheduling) to 19 (least
favorable)."

I believe the value is how "nice" the process is to others.  So a high
niceness results in a lower priority.  Things that are unimportant
should be run with a higher niceness than important things.

--Rogan