[olug] Running programs with nice

Adam Lassek hayai2 at cox.net
Thu Jan 22 19:17:02 UTC 2004


alias emerge="nice -n 19 emerge" ?
> 
> From: Tim Bornholtz <tim at bornholtz.com>
> Date: 2004/01/22 Thu PM 01:57:52 EST
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: [olug] Running programs with nice
> 
> Is there a way to change the default nice value for a program?
> 
> I'm using gentoo and I'd like emerge (like yum or rpm) to always run 
> with a nice level of 19. 
> 
> I can start it with `nice -n 19 emerge` but I'm lazy and want to just 
> type `emerge` and have it run with a very low priority.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
> 
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