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Nice Performance Tuning For UNIX

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the never-nice-enough dept.

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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  1. Re:Scheduling Priority is for sissys by dlZ · · Score: 0, Troll

    While we are on the topic, is there a market for a slashdot style site that is more geared for computer professionals?

    Slashdot has a very smart userbase, and I would not abandon slashdot, but I would like to get away from the highschool and undergrad "know it all" people. Articles like this one are way below anyone who does Linux or UNIX professionally, and when I mention things like this the /. moderators slap me with an overrated moderation.

    I'm serious, would there be a target audience of professionals that would like a website geared for them? Does one already exist that I don't know about that has active readers and interactive discussions?

     I don't know of one, either. I wouldn't stop reading /. but something a bit more professional away from the sophmoric attitude of many of the "younger" /. crowd would be great. And I don't mean just younger in age or ID. Sometimes it can be amusing, but you're right, the chances your comment, and now mine, will get slapped down as overrated or trolls.

    It's really going to come down to someone creating it. But the problem is actually getting the users over there, while not allowing the same things to happen. It's a thin line to walk if you don't want to censor but at the same time want to keep the immaturity down. I know that's what the moderation system is for here, but maybe just having users with a different mind set and attitude would make all the difference.

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  2. Hmmmmmm by ninewands · · Score: 0, Troll

    Use nice(1) and renice(8) to performance-tune your server ... DUH!

    C'mon IBM ... this is not even sysadmin 101-level material ...

    Here I was all ready to receive the latest recommendations from Big Blue about WHICH processes should be set to WHICH nice(1) level to make a decent first approximation of a well-balanced server and all I get is this stuff.

    Very disappointing.

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    utter rubbish