nice

Is there a way to launch a user process with higher priority? nice won't work as a normal user, and sudo nice launches as root. I can get what I want using renice as follows: xterm -name foo & sudo renice -n -10 `ps -o pid,args | grep foo | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }'` but I'm...

Hello everyone. After a long time spent with linux (we use it for development at work), I decided to go back and have a look at FreeBSD. I used to compile software using the ports collection. On the other side, I use gentoo linux and, as a developer and building everything from source in...