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Nice Performance Tuning For UNIX
Professor writes "Be 'nice' to your computers and examine some general guidelines for tuning server performance. A computer is like an employee who does tasks for you -- it's a good idea to keep from overburdening them. Keep this from happening by using the UNIX 'nice' command."
Set 'em all to -19, and let the best program win! If they don't have to fight each other for CPU cycles they will grow up weak and feeble.
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nice -19 -n doFirstPost
i'll surely get first post this way!!!
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
When using 'nice' try the -666 option to enable the evil bit. Hilarity will ensue.
Now here's a fun thing to do: rip a DVD with several programs at once, all at nice -19 at you suggest, and encode it to XVid and DivX and Theora all at once for good measure.
Watch the DVD drive churn and seek and gasp!
Watch the encoders fight for CPU time with top open in a terminal window!
Run some unnecessary I/O-bound process like updatedb in the background so that the hard drive can get in on the thrashing!
Wheeee! What fun...
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Whoa whoa whoa, slow down. First I learn there's a "nice" command, and now you're telling me there's a "man" command too? This is way too much information for one day.
"mount nice man" doesn't sound like my cup of tea.