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Xi0N

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From: Bilbao - Spain

Registered: 2007-11-29

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Give more priority (cpu time) to a certain process over others

My computer is becoming a bit slow this days, it's quite old and some x265 playback is starting to lag a lot.

I have been doing some research and it seems to be very heavy on cpu usage, so I wasn thinking perhaps I could prioritise kodi over, for example, deluge daemon, which is hogging a lot of cpu from time to time.

I guess I could work out how to manually set the priority but I must ask how to do this persistent between reboots, so this process is always more privileged than any other ones.

Thanks!

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Give more priority (cpu time) to a certain process over others

`man nice`

As for making it permanent, just change how you start the programs in question to add the call to `nice`.

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Registered: 2013-04-10

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Re: Give more priority (cpu time) to a certain process over others

Also 'man schedtool'.

Especially if you happened to be using linux-ck, or some other kernel that supports SCHED_ISO and/or SCHED_IDLEPRIO.