How do I change process priorities?
Well how?
For some strange reason those programs designed to do it (processWizard and Nicer) doesn´t work for me. Could it be because I´ve installed X.1.3?
In some cases I would like to give the most power to QT, also from paging routines, but I don´t know how to do it.
For some strange reason those programs designed to do it (processWizard and Nicer) doesn´t work for me. Could it be because I´ve installed X.1.3?
In some cases I would like to give the most power to QT, also from paging routines, but I don´t know how to do it.
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for example:
sudo renice -16 544
Sorry if I am asking stupid questions but I am as un-UNIX as it gets.
Just use this: <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13366&db=mac" target="_blank">Process Wizard</a>
It's a menu that lets you adjust the priority on the fly very easily.
That said, here's how "renice" works. The priority scale goes from -20 to 20, with -20 being high priority and 20 being low priority. By default, all apps you launch have a priority of 0. I never recommend renice'ing a process -20 because there's a chance, albeit slim, that it could make your system unresponsive. To get the PID (process identification) number, you can use one of several different tools. From the command line, you can use 'top' or from the Finder you can launch ProcessViewer (in the /Applications/Utilities folder). In ProcessViewer, simply select the process in question and click the "More Info" switch at the bottom of the window. The first thing listed in the "Process ID" tab should be the PID you need.
ps -e | grep netscape
to find netscape's PID
That symbol in the middle (|) is 'pipe', it is shift-backslash, and backslash is right beneath delete.