enlidohoade
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I have a shell script that runs very cpu intensive programs. FFMPEG,ffmpeg2theora,etc. and I want to be able to run them but not choke the server. Is there something I can do to make sure the running programs are running as fast as possible but not hurting the server?Like a priority system...if something else comes along that needs it the other programs drop in priority aka cpu usage. I know there is "nice" but with the above programs are not working with it.I played with cpulimit but that makes me say it can't go higher than that even though there may be a light load and it could handle more.Any existing unix tools or ideas?