Changing priorities
Posted on September 9th, 1997 by shacker
Concurrently running applications vie for attention from the processor in accordance with their priority level, as managed by the system’s scheduler. If for some reason you want to increase or decrease the priority of a given application, use:
prio thread_id priority
To see the current priority level of any given thread, run ps
. Thread IDs are listed in the first column, priorities are listed in the fourth column.