Get/set the priority of a single process or set of processed. Note
that on Linux threads are similar to processes and this interface
also applies to threads. The PID of a Prolog thread is accessible
through thread_property/2. Which is one of
- process
- Specify a single process/thread. Who is the PID of the process.
- pgrp
- Specify a process group. Who is the process group indentifier.
Currently SWI-Prolog has no interface to process groups.
- user
- Specify all processes owned by a user. Who is the numeric
user id of the target user.
Priority is the nice value of the process and is an integer in the
range -20..20, where lower numbers denote a higher priority. Who can
be 0 (zero) to specify the calling process, process group or user.
Please consult the scheduler documentation of your operating system
before using setpriority/3. Unix systems generally schedule a
process at a given priority only if there is no process with a
higher priority (lower nice value) in runnable state.
For example, to lower the priority of the gc thread we can use the
call below. Note that this may cause GC to never run.
?- thread_property(gc, system_thread_id(PID)),
setpriority(process, PID, 5).
- Errors
- -
existence_error(Which, Who) - -
permission_error(setpriority, Which, Who)
