[Trilug-ontopic] Process priority

[Jason Watts]

so... i discovered (it was quite obvious actually) that to run an rsync and
an un-tar command at the same time on the same set of drives that it really
causes the system to lag.

My question is for the next time I need to do something like that.  how
would I set the priority of the un-tar to a lower priority... that way it is
only using what resources are left over that aren't being used?  if that's
really possible  (my bottleneck was actually the spindle speeds of the
drives)

thanks,
Jason
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