If I understand your question: You should adjust the "nice" value of the process. -20 = NOT nice (Highest Priority) +19 = VERY nice (Lowest Priority) see man nice or info nice On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:07, Levente -Levi- Littvay wrote: > Hello all > > I am encoding a DVD now into AVI. On this laptop it takes forever and it > slows down every other task tremendously. Can I explain the program > somehow that it should only use provcessor time is someone else does not > want to? > > L > > > ---- > Husker Linux Users Group mailing list > To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE -- Carl Lundstedt <clundst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> University of Nebraska ---- Husker Linux Users Group mailing list To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE