Linux Tip of the Day - renice CPU hogs

August 19, 2008 by Adrian
Filed under: Linux 

have you ever wanted to automatically force a process that uses up most of the CPU.

 

renice 20 `ps -augxww | sort -rn +3 -4 | head -1 | awk ‘{print $2}’`

 

Note: Check your ‘ps’ command. Your arguments may differ.

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    2. If only you could give a bit more information that would be great.

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