Priority setting for transcode jobs

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Tolotos
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Priority setting for transcode jobs

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Hi,

I have a VM running handbrake and can't connect to it e.g. via VNC ore TeamViewer because handbrake uses 100% CPU (permanent load of 11 @8cores).
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS.
It would be nice to set the transcoding tasks to a lower priority to get the OS responding.

Kind regards, Tolotos
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JohnAStebbins
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Re: Priority setting for transcode jobs

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man nice
Arwen
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Re: Priority setting for transcode jobs

Post by Arwen »

And since HandBrake tends to be heavy with I/O;

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ionice -c 3 HANDBRAKE_TASK
I routinely nice and ionice my scripts that use HandBrakeCLI. (Yes, both nice & ionice can be used together.)
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