Assign priority to a process

[Rama Murthy]

Hi,

I used mandriva 2007. When I open a big document (which has about 10 photos), the word processor (writer) hangs up.

Is there a way in which i can peep into the processes and give this process a greater priority and cpu time so that it opens up quickly?

 

Thank you.

[spinynorman]

There are a number of suggestions on the web such as these at The Inquirer.

 

Hope it helps. :)

[tyme]

nice can be used to change priority.

[Rama Murthy]

Hii.. Thanks for the "nice" suggestion..

But say I am running Amarok, firefox and thunderbird on my machine.. where does it list all these processes?

nice says

[root@localhosta Desktop]# man nice
[root@localhost Desktop]# nice
0
[root@localhost Desktop]# 
[code]

I have gone thru manual pages of nice.. it doest give me any way to list out processes running on my system.. so that i can assign priority to them...
and i tried this..
[code]
[root@localhost Desktop]# nice firefox
[root@localhost Desktop]#

it opens another firefox window for me.. !!?

 

How do i list out processes running on my system?

 

Thanks for your help on this..

[pindakoe]

Try 'pgrep'. With this you look up details of processes meeting certain criteria, say:

 

pgrep -lf -u rama

 

would list all processes started by user rama, including command line and other details how thee were started. See man pgrep for details. Both gnome (gnome-system-monitor) and KDE (don't know) have graphical version of this.

[tyme]

You can also try ps, in various forms. I prefer:

ps -fu <username>

but some people would rather use:

ps -aux

[Rama Murthy]

Thank you.. I got it..