Re: [RULE] make use of "nice" to prioritize threads, & swap space for preloading?

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Saturday 17 May 2003 08:39 pm, Eugene Wong wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I tried installing OOo on a 32MB K5 computer, & as you may have
> guessed, it was extremely painful.
>
> I am wondering if there is anything that we can do to preload software
> into the swap partition, when the user isn't using the package. For
> example, I may not intend to use OOo till the end of the day, & I
> wouldn't mind letting the computer devote space cycles to loading it
> into the swap partition. Is it possible? Michael, would you know
> anything about this?

Nope, I don't know anything about it. It doesn't seem likely to help much, 
in any case. There are just some things that require physical memory.

> Also does anybody know how to set the nice level @ the time of
> execution?

"man nice" for details, but basic usage would be:

nice -n program program_args
Where n is a number from -20 (highest priority) to 19 (lowest)

See also "man renice" to alter the priority of a running application.

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