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Thanks Ted. I must say that the support from the group is great and
I really appreciate it all. I tell people that I'm trying to convert
from the "beasts" of Windoze and OS Ex that the GnuLinux model is
true anarchy in action in that it is primarily egalitarian and
cooperative for a common goal. Why can't it apply to other parts of
our societies?<br>
But I digress....<br>
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Thanks again<br>
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Brian<br>
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On 06/01/2012 03:07 PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Brian, The invocation of 'nice' or 're-nicing' might slow down the
number of process calls from Firefox and in a sense tame it to behave
'nicely' with other applications. I don't know that there is a history
of Firefox being overly demanding and I have not had that kind of
issue even on older machines. By the way, on some much under equipped
machines I used Epiphany, a lighter weight browser. It has fewer
options and add-ons, but for basic surfing and e-mail it is quite
sufficient. Good luck, Ted P.
On 6/1/12, BrianO'Keefe <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com"><okeefe@cybermesa.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Thanks much Ted. I checked out the man pages and manual and will have to
study them to understand Nice. What I don't understand is why I should
invoke it?
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Brian and NMGlugers; Nice is an attribute of any application. I think
you can "re-nice" in 'top' on the command line. I have not done this,
but you can read the manual. Nice and renice have manual pages. but
the physical change is probably your best first action. SFBC is not my
first choice for that level of dis-assembly. Nor is our usual meeting
hour likely to be quite enough time. Maybe Scott has an idea of how
long this might take on a laptop.
Ted P.
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