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Questions tagged [nice]

Use for questions concerning the Linux/Unix nice program, or the related renice or ionice programs, used for controlling process priority. For questions concerning the NICE Media Player, use the [nice-media-player] tag.

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nice has no effect in Linux unless the same shell is used

If I enter in two different root terminals: nice -n 19 burnK7 & and nice -n -19 burnK7 & Then both processes receive about 50% of the available CPU time - not expected and certainly not desired. If I run in the same root terminal: nice -n 19…
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Set niceness value in a systemd user service

I'd like to start xcape with a nice value of -20 as non-root. However setting a nice value of -20 requires root permissions. So I was wondering whether this is somehow possible. I also tried to create a system service and setting User=myuser, but…
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Nice commands in a .sh script for cron jobs

I have a php script that I need to run on shared webhosting. I have created a cron job that executes an sh script. The command in my crontab is: /bin/sh /home/user/script.sh I'm assuming it is Bourne Shell (or something compatible). The script…
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Does the Linux 'nice' command work on any shell script?

Does nice work on any shell script, or does it work on basic Linux commands only? For example, if I have a custom shell script that contains a sort function, and I call nice myscript.sh would the nice scheduling priority apply to sort in the…
Junba Tester
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limit priority/threads for Gradle/Android Studio builds?

When Android Studio builds my project, it easily eats up all my 8 cores. I'd like to be able to fluently browse the internet while my app is compiling. Is there a way I can set Gradle's java processes to have a low priority (nice level > 10)? That…
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How do I elevate the priority of a process without giving that process superuser rights?

I have a high priority service that I start with sudo nice -n -10 process. This process does not need superuser rights though, except for the priority elevation. But nice requires superuser privileges to elevate priority. How do I run a process with…
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Tell 'nice' to stop +19 processes if load >= 1

I've noticed my computer gets sluggish when the load increases past 1 (ie, the first number after "load average:" from the "uptime" command). Heavy-duty processes (like rsync) often raise the load above 1, even if I renice them lowest priority…
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ALWAYS run commands with low priority on unix?

I am not asking how to nice and renice a command on UNIX. What happens is that on a particular machine into which I frequently log I am only allowed to run long-running processes with low priority (nice 19). Is there a way for all my commands on…
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Cron job not abiding by the nice command

I got a script that backs up minecraft worlds, when ran by command (nice -19 ./backup.sh) it doesn't lag what so ever, server load stays low. When I try to do nice -19 ./backup.sh in a cronjob, it doesn't "nice" it and it uses a high amount of…
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Remember the nice value in Linux

On Linux, how to make the processes remember their nice between starts ? For XP+ you can use Prio to remember the priority and also the IO priority on VISTA+. However, on Linux, and only for running via terminal, I've had to create a command in…
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Too many processes have realtime or -20 niceness

For some reason a lot of my processes are real-time and and keep making my audio lag. Are these supposed to be real-time? I tried both a hard reboot and soft reboot, I even restarted pulse but to no avail.
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'nice' does not work, even when using 'sudo'. "Permission Denied"

I am attempting to set the priority on an application to be higher, but I keep getting 'permission denied' when attempting to do som even as the superuser. From the Terminal: Alexandsteins-Macbook:~ alexanderstein$ sudo nice -n -10…
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how to prioritize windows process to WSL tasks?

I have a Windows OS, with a WSL installed. I am running some computation heavy processes in WSL, written in Fortran, submit using nohup, which usually takes 10 hours to complete a task. I wanted to simultaneously submit, say 30 tasks. But I want to…
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rtorrent with Seeds and Downloads

I'm using rtorrent for a very long time. I'm fan. This is one of the greatest console torrent manager ever. However, I can't found cool way to keep seeding. My downloads separated into two directories, Downloads and Seeds. From time to time I'm…
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can I `dtach` or `renice` graphical programs like `evince`?

I sometimes open PDF's and then want them "sort of" open "to read later", but I'm not looking at them at the moment. While I'm not looking at them I'd like the OS to spend less effort keeping them up. In other words I'd like the OS to allocate…
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