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    <link type="seealso" xref="process-identify-hog"/>
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    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Phil Bull</name>
      <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2014</years>
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    <desc>Decide whether a process should get a bigger or smaller share of the processor's time.</desc>
  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Fran Dieguez</mal:name>
      <mal:email>fran.dieguez@gnome.org</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2022</mal:years>
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  <title>Cambiar a prioridade dun proceso</title>

  <p>You can tell the computer that certain processes should have a higher priority than others, and so should be given a bigger share of the available computing time. This can make them run faster, but only in certain cases. You can also give a process a <em>lower</em> priority if you think it is taking up too much processing power.</p>
  
  <steps>
    <item><p>Go to the <gui>Processes</gui> tab and click on the process you want to have a different priority.</p></item>
    <item><p>Right-click the process, and use the <gui>Change Priority</gui> menu to assign the process a higher or lower priority.</p></item>
  </steps>
  
  <p>There is typically little need to change process priorities manually. The computer will usually do a good job of managing them itself. (The system for managing the priority of processes is called <link xref="process-priority-what">nice</link>.)</p>
  

  <section id="faster">
    <title>Unha prioridade máis alta fai que un proceso vaia máis rápido?</title>
    
    <p>O computador comparte o tempo de procesado entre todos os procesos en execución. Isto é normalmente compartido de forma intelixente, xa que os programas que están facendo máis traballo automaticamente terán unha porción máis grande dos recursos. A maioría do tempo, os procesos obterán canto tempo de procesado como precisen, polo que xa estarán executándose tan rápido como sexa posíbel. Se cambia a prioridade non haberá diferenza.</p>
    
    <p>If your computer is running several computationally-intensive programs at once, however, its processing time may be "over-subscribed" (that is, the <link xref="process-identify-hog">processor's full capacity</link> will be in use). You may notice that other programs run slower than usual because there is not enough processing time to share between all of them.</p>
    
    <p>In this case, changing the priority of processes can be helpful. You could lower the priority of one of the computationally-intensive processes to free up more processing time for other programs. Alternatively, you could increase the priority of a process that is more important to you, and that you want to run faster.</p>
    
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