really silly: to lowerdown priority?

[Lewis Thompson]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:05:23AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> When I play games I leave the file compression process at lowest level, in 
> that situation cpu resource is given to file compressor only when the 
> foreground game does not require it. What's the FreeBSD style to deal with 
> the situation?

man nice is a good start.  There are likely other ways to do this.

  Best wishes,

-lewiz.

-- 
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.  --Bob Dylan, 1964.
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