Linux Administration/Commands/Priorities

This lesson covers priority management.

Objectives and Skills

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Objectives and skills for the priority management portion of Linux+ certification include:[1]

  • 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

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  1. Wikipedia: Scheduling (computing)

Multimedia

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Activities

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

Lesson Summary

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Key Terms

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References

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