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."

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Bad teacher, no cookie!

[Fubar420]

FTFA: "In fact, only the ps command was running when I generated this list. Most tasks are designed to do what they need to do quickly and then exit or sleep."

Of course, because all other processes, at the instant PS was running, were blocking on the CPU. In other words, on a uniprocessor system, you can only have one process running at a time, and in the case of a process that reports the state of other processes, its only THAT PROCESS THAT WILL APPEAR RUNNING...

Go play in /proc/self for a while.