vmware priority issue
Hi all, I noticed that VMWare uses a nice value of -20 for some of it's services PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2504 hans 0 -20 1732 1184 676 S 0.3 0.5 0:02.34 vmware-vmx This causes just about everything else on my system to come to a standstil (especially where hard disk i/o is involved - slow disk). Is there anyway to force vmware to not use nice values lower than a certain number, say 0? Thanks Hans
Hi all,
I noticed that VMWare uses a nice value of -20 for some of it's services
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2504 hans 0 -20 1732 1184 676 S 0.3 0.5 0:02.34 vmware-vmx
This causes just about everything else on my system to come to a standstil (especially where hard disk i/o is involved - slow disk).
Is there anyway to force vmware to not use nice values lower than a certain number, say 0?
Hi Hans, you can change the priority using "nice". To lower the priority of vmware you should type: "nice -x vmware-vmx" where x is an integer. But only the root is allowed to do this. For additional information type "man nice". Fabian
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 15:48, Fabian Niestroj wrote:
I noticed that VMWare uses a nice value of -20 for some of it's services PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2504 hans 0 -20 1732 1184 676 S 0.3 0.5 0:02.34 vmware-vmx
Hi Hans, you can change the priority using "nice". To lower the priority of vmware you should type: "nice -x vmware-vmx" where x is an integer. But only the root is allowed to do this. For additional information type "man nice".
Fabian
I did that, thanks, but it setis itself up again. I'm looking for a way to force it to always use a value of, say, 1. Any ideas? Hans
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 09:02, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 15:48, Fabian Niestroj wrote:
I noticed that VMWare uses a nice value of -20 for some of it's services PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2504 hans 0 -20 1732 1184 676 S 0.3 0.5 0:02.34 vmware-vmx
Hi Hans, you can change the priority using "nice". To lower the priority of vmware you should type: "nice -x vmware-vmx" where x is an integer. But only the root is allowed to do this. For additional information type "man nice".
Fabian
I did that, thanks, but it setis itself up again. I'm looking for a way to force it to always use a value of, say, 1.
Add it to the startup script in /etc/init.d -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)
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