Serviio

I am running ubuntu server headless 11.10 with serviio 0.6.2 and I was wondering if there is a way to change the priority of serviio so that it gets more of my cpu than other processes. Is this possible?

the OS decides and allocates when needed.

It is up to the OS, which will usually do a very good job of it.

You can however change it using nice, by changing your start up script to something like this


Alternatively, if you just want ffmpeg which deals with transcoding to have a high priority, then write a short ffmpeg wrapper script that calls the real ffmpeg using nice to adjust its priority.

However, my approach is the oposite, I run anything that may take CPU time, but I don't care about, with a lower than normal priority.