Web Design Blog - July 10, 2009

Linux, make your processes play “nice”

Ever run into a problem where one program on your server starts using up all the cpu? Make that process be "nicer" to the rest of the running programs. Each running process has a nice value, essentially a priority for who gets more of the cpu time. You will need the process id of the process you want to be nicer, you can get that using the nifty "ps" command. After you do that, renice that process with a command like renice +15 -p <process_id> The nice priority works in reverse of how a re... read more!

Jul 10, 2009 5:33pm by Mike Vandenberghe

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Working with Those Pesky MPEGs

It's common knowledge that the Standard Definition DVD format is MPEG-2 video with 48khz audio. That's the wrapper you must work with if you want to put anything on this very popular (and pervasive) format. Encoding times, however, can take awhile (even on a fast computer) and tie up your system. Suppose your video is already an MPEG (as in a DVD or hard drive camera) and all you want to do is trim the thing? Do you have to drop it into your editor and re-encode the entire video? There has to be... read more!

Jul 10, 2009 8:42am by Scott Eggleston

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