Linux Process Tuning Made Easy: Understanding nice and renice
The Linux Crash Course series here on Learn Linux TV teaches you a valuable Linux-related skill in each and every video. You can watch most episodes in any order, and with over 60 entries in this series (and counting) there's no shortage of Linux Learning! In this episode, Jay will teach you some of the basics of tuning Linux processes with the nice and renice commands.
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00:00 - Intro
01:16 - Set up your own Linux server with Akamai! (Sponsor)
02:38 - Quick refresher on the ps command
03:42 - Understanding the output of the ps command
04:50 - Making sense of "niceness" values
07:13 - Example of changing the priority of a process in Linux
10:49 - Further exploring the renice command
12:22 - Setting process priority with the nice command
13:59 - Another key difference between the nice and renice commands
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