renice

Does renice on a parent renice the child?

I know if I nice a shell script (ie: before it runs) all processes that start from the shell script will also be niced. What if I start a shell script and the renice it, do all the child processes become reniced as well? Looked in the renice man pages and there are no mention of child processes. ...

Does PHP proc_nice leave Apache threads at new priority setting?

When executing proc_nice(), is it actually nice'ing Apache's thread? If so, and if the current user (non-super user) can't renice to its original priority is killing the Apache thread appropriate (apache_child_terminate) on an Apache 2.0x server? The issue is that I am trying to limit the impact of an app that allows the user to run Ad...

Is it possible to renice a subprocess ?

I know about os.nice() it works perfect for parent process, but I need to do renice of my child subprocesses. I found way to do this, but it seems to be not very handy and too excessive: os.system("renice -n %d %d" % ( new_nice, suprocess.pid ) ) And it isn't return resulting nice level after renicing. Is there more clean way to reni...

Is there some way to "nice" my JavaScript execution?

I'd like to run some calculations in a browser window, but I don't want it to slow the client computer down for user interaction, especially for single core machines. Is there some way to adjust the nice level of my executing JavaScript so that it will execute as fast as possible without detracting from the responsiveness of the machine...