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Hi Robert,
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 07:41:36AM +0000, Robert Gauld wrote:
> What I'm after doing is a bit of video transcoding on a 4 times a year
> basis, I realise this is CPU intensive and would like to be a good
> neighbour to the others who are on the same physical box as me.
> How do I run a command in low priority mode?
"nice" will do it for CPU, but unless you're planning to peg the CPU
at 100% for days I wouldn't worry about it, as CPU usage usually
isn't a problem.
I don't think there is a good solution for disk IO, which is more of
a problem. "ionice" will manage the priority of a task but I
believe only in relation to other tasks on your VPS.
Cheers,
Andy
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