[Trilug-ontopic] Process priority

[Matt Frye]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Jason Watts <jsnonzzr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

Read up on the nice command, although I admit I'm not sure about the
relative effect of "priority" on I/O, which may be the real problem.
Anyone?

MPF