Re: [SLE] using telnet

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 18:03, stephan beal wrote:

i often watch videos while i copy them to another machine (using scp) to be burned to DVD (my desktop machine didn't, until recently, have a DVD burner). When i do this, scp takes up so much CPU that my videos drop frames or the audio drops out for short periods. To get around that, simply renice your scp process:

nice -+19 scp myfile remote:/path/to/myfile

If I/O bandwidth, rather than CPU, is the problem, then the ionice command would also be useful. -- Bill Gallafent.