Linux Administration/Commands/Priorities

This lesson covers priority management.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the priority management portion of Linux+ certification include:

• Modify process execution priorities
  • Know the default priority of a job that is created
  • Run a program with higher or lower priority than the default
  • Change the priority of a running process
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
    • nice
    • ps
    • renice
    • top

Readings

1. Wikipedia: Scheduling (computing)

Activities

1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Process execution priorities

References

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