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linuxmacosprocessresourceslimit

Limit a set of processes' CPU and memory usage

Browsing the web has low priority for me, and so I would like all the processes that deal with it to be low priority, too.

Is this approach a valid one?

  1. Open a console window with the nice command.
  2. Launch the browser from this console.

Will the program launched from this console inherit the niceness of the console itself?

Solution

  • Will the program launched from this console inherit the niceness of the console itself?

    The answer is yes. You can check it nice -n19 xterm. In the console, start someprocess, then check the nice level using ps -efl | grep someprocess. The nice level is inherited.