How to permanently "renice" a process on Mac OS X (or iOS, etc)?
- by mralexgray
I use a nice (free) process manager called ATMonitor for Mac OS X that has a lot of cool hidden features... one of which is being able to click on a running process.. and set the "renice" from +20 (less priority) to -20 (highest priority).
The best part.... it sticks between restarts... SO you want XYZ to get full attention all the time.. you set it once and it's done...
I want to do the same thing (renice a process) on an iPad running a particular daemon.. and I don't know how to set a renice permanently.
I can do it once, and it works fine... But the setting is lost on a reboot. I read somewhere..
Now, as for permanently resetting the
priority of a process, this can't be
done directly. You can fake it,
however, with a shell script that
starts the app and then immediately
renice's it. Give that script a
".command" extension and it will be
double-clickable in the GUI. Not very
elegant, but it gets the job done.
But as it says.. not very elegant, and I dont think this is how ATMonitor does it....
I found this thread.... http://superuser.com and they gave a way to do it as a launch argument, but no apparent way to save it as a persistent value... for instance - if the program wasn't going to be started by launchd...
How do I set a permanent renice level, per executable binary, independent of it's PID, when, how or why it was launched?
