I Have a Tech Question
This is a rather basic question since this seems different to me then in the Linux/Unix world. I have this program that eats a lot of processor time and can stall a bit and I want to assign it with more processor time in OS X 10.4.2 so I want to move it up in the Utility list.
But I am not exactly sure on the syntax and the man page for nice wasn't exactly helpful though I did learn that if you assign a negative # it raises it up in the que for processor time higher and it has been around since Version 6 of AT&T Unix.
So I switched over to the directory my Home Folder which has a path to where I want like this.
/Users/tristanpipo/desktop/MegaSeg 3.0.1
Some reason when I attempt a SU and try to login as root I it says my password is invalid but I don't believe OS X requires you setup a root user password.
I think I am just missing a step here is a Screenshot but any help is appreciated
5 Comments:
You might try setting a password for root. You can do this under the security menu of the Netinfo Manager. Instead of su you could try sudo, it works fine too. osx is a bit strange when it comes to root.
os x is built strange in a lot of ways. Like how come in terminal if you do an ls -all or ls -l you don't get friendly colors like in my many experiences with red hat. Another thing I have pondered but never thought to try if you use ssh to login to an apache webserver I have triend you don't get colors for ls -l or ls -all
Not that is is a big use for me but made my life a lot easier without having to figure out what everything is.
"assing a negative #" rofl...
Yes, I am immature... :P
Yeah I also spelled utility wrong. But that was a quick remedy.
But thanks for pointing that out. =)
Well I went and asked the UNIX Guy at my school and he said that any admin can run this process he was not sure about OS X. But he said you have to NICE the proccess ID. But I need to figure out the Syntax for that. The MAN page was not as helpful as I could have wanted.
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