Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!vsi1!teraida!mikel From: mikel@teraida.UUCP (Mikel Lechner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Lower user's (not process') priority Message-ID: <7741@teraida.UUCP> Date: 25 Jul 89 21:01:28 GMT References: <66926@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Organization: Teradyne EDA Inc., Santa Clara, Calif. Lines: 21 root@yale.UUCP (Root Of All Evil) writes: >I would like to be able to renice *all* processses from >user TrivialPerson to about 19 or 20, and make mine all >about -19 or -20. >Can this be done? >How? Yes. Try "renice +20 -u user". This changes for all processes for the specified user. Also, since my machine is sometimes used for compilations accross the network, I sometime "renice +20 ". This causes "rsh" commands to run at the lower priority. However, "rlogin" resets its priority back to 0 when someone logs in over the network, so this wont work for lowering priority of remote logins. Mikel Lechner UUCP: ...!{decwrl,sun}!teraida!mikel Teradyne EDA, Inc. Phone: (408) 980-5200 5155 Old Ironsides Drive Santa Clara, Ca 95054