linuxgeek: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: How to control traffic in Linux?

Thursday, January 2, 2014

[LINUX_Newbies] Re: How to control traffic in Linux?

On 02Jan2014 21:49, trevor pearson <trev15evil@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > It is enough
> > nice unzip
> > and unzip is very slow.
> > ?
> >
> > And what is the opposite
> >
> > zip should be very very fast and important?
>
> nice -n -1 unzip
>
> '-1' down to '-20'

Note: negative niceness requires root privileges on many platforms.

Consult "man 2 nice" for the specific rules on your platform for the nice() system call.

Consult "man 1 nice" for the command line tool, which may also mention these rules.
(Unless you're on Linux with GNU nice, where the manual says " The
full documentation for nice is maintained as a Texinfo manual." -
Gah!)

And consult "man 1p nice" for the POSIX manul entry for the nice command;
that should describe portable behaviour you may expect on any UNIX platform.

Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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