nice'ing processes

Rick Buford rickbuford at greeblesnort.com
Tue Jan 28 23:32:17 EST 2003


As a production linux admin for several years now, I can suggest a 
couple of things:
1. NEVER RUN ANYTHING AS ROOT that you don't ABSOLUTELY have 
too...ever...period - create a user with userad <username>; passwd 
<username>
2. nice'ing processes to -20 will not work for any normal 
process...that's a level usually reserved for system processes and if 
you disrupt them, yer gonna get hosed
3. clean up your system: a) remove unneeded processes if this box is 
devoted to BF ("man ps" & "man top"); this includes GUIs. KDE & GNOME 
are nowhere near the hogs that winblows is, but they still take system 
resources, even if they're just sitting there to give you an xterm ("man 
init" & "man inittab")
4. do not fear the command line: "man apropos", "man locate", & "man 
find" will help you to find CLI nirvana




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