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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This is helpful, but not news.

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Educating people about their systems isn't a bad thing, but ought this really be front page news on Slashdot?