Linux Administration/Commands/Priorities

This lesson covers priority management.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the priority management portion of Linux+ certification include:
 * Modify process execution priorities
 * Know the default priority of a job that is created
 * Run a program with higher or lower priority than the default
 * Change the priority of a running process
 * The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
 * nice
 * ps
 * renice
 * top

Readings

 * 1)  Scheduling (computing)

Activities

 * 1) Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Process execution priorities