[ale] renice

Jay Goodman ale at goody.homelinux.net
Mon Aug 20 12:35:50 EDT 2007


edit your limits.conf file   (/etc/security/limits.conf)

Add a line like
myusername   -    nice   -10



This should do the trick.  Make sure you fall completely out of the top
most login (exit X and re-login)  for these limits to take effect.


I don't use ubuntu, but from the claims of another ale'r I'd guess that
they prepackage a limits.conf that has a @users line that allows higher
niceness.




> I would like to launch skype, and adjust it's nice-ness so downward so it
> takes priority over most things I'm doing.  Easy to do.  But, I don't want
> to
> run it as root (seems like a bad idea).
>
> renice seems to be the answer, but I'm having trouble stringing everything
> together in a script.  Suggestions?
>
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