[ale] perl nice'ness

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Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Is there a way to make perl scripts run nicer wrt to cpu utilization,
> rather than at the default 0 nice?
>
> Thx, 
>
> -Jim P.
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nice -19 perl <args>

or, if the script is already running,

renice 19 <process-id-of-perl>

ought to fix you up.