[Fred]

Thanks for this, I'm already doing something like this but in an other way, but this seems to be a better solution. Now I'm using scripts containing these kind of lines:

Code:

sudo nice -n 15 /etc/init.d/nzbget start >/dev/null 2>&1 &

To add info: You can also change the priority of existing processes using renice, for instance for changing the priority of samba:

Code:

sudo renice 10 `pgrep smbd`
sudo renice 10 `pgrep nmbd`

Also, I have been told that you have to run the following before these priorities will have any effect, don't know if this is (still) true.

Code:

sudo sysctl kernel.sched_autogroup_enabled=0