How to distribute processor time?

[UnknownPerson]

I have a Linux server wich has a CD writter. Sometimes, we ask the server to burn a CD, but (just to be sure) we need first to make sure that the burning software gets most attention (say, 50 or 60%). Is there a way of doing this easily?

Thanks in advance

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

You can set the priority via the 'nice' command for a new process and adjust a running one via 'renice'. The default is 0 and the highest priority is -20 amd the lowest 19.

So you'd do something like :

# nice -n -5 /usr/bin/netscape &

or

# renice -10 -p 1234

(where 1234 is the process id - see the 'top' command for running processes or use 'ps -aux' )

Hope this helps