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[Alan Milewczyk]

On 09/11/2014 13:33, Tom wrote:
> On 09/11/14 13:18, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
>> You and a few others have mentioned "nice" in the last few days. I've
>> never heard of it before. What is it and what are its benefits?
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> Sorry about last blank response! nice is a unix/linux command that 
> sets the priority of a process so that other processes can get more of 
> less of the computer resources. So for a long long download you can 
> set nice so get just burbles around in the background and you can use 
> your computer as if it was not running at all - assuming its not 
> consuming too much network bandwidth!!
> Tom
Thanks to all for the replies!

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