change priority of running processes?

[Christoph]

I've noticed that Opera 6.01b1 eats up about 10-15% of my CPU cycles when I leave it doing nothing. Is there some program I can use to raise my Folding client's priority or lower Opera's when I'm not using it?

 

[JaY_III]

i am just a linux newbie...
but the "nice" command lets you set the priority of any process running...

The "ps" command will give you a list of the processes......

"ps -l " will list all processes, and give you the priority that they are runnign with.... (under the PRI) colum)

If you could assign a higher number to it, then it sould have a lower prority....

"nice <command to lauch opera>" and that should add a value of 10 to decress the priority of Opera (by 10), or "nice -n <command to lauch opera> " were n is a number you chose.

Will this work?
I am not 100% sure, but it may be worth a try.
Like i said before, justa linux newbie myself

 

[XWRed1]

renice will let you change the priority of a running process. Read the man page for renice.

 

[JaY_III]

the "man" command is awsome

thank you XWRed1 for point that one out.

 

[Christoph]

renice will let you change the priority of a running process. Read the man page for renice.

Oh yeah. The man pages. Thanks.
Edit: I've got it now. Some page I had loaded had a flash ad that was eating up my cycles. I closed the page, and now Opera's happily running on 1.3-1.85% of my cycles, even with a higher priority than the folding client.
Thanks!

 

[mcrites]

If your man page pipes through more, I would recommend the GNU utility info. I hate when you can't pageup in a more.