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"nice"ing processes

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From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@xxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: "nice"ing processes
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 97 10:36:03 -0500
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Reply-to: luomat@xxxxxxxx

say I want to run a CPU intensive program (like gzip on a large  
file) and want to do so with the least amount of impact  
(cpu/whatnot).

What should I do?  Running it in the background doesn't seem to  
make that much of a difference.

TjL

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