6 Jan
2004
6 Jan
'04
13:48
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