[gnome-system-monitor/wip/mallard-help: 19/62] wrote draft for process-priority-change



commit b952f814b9bc7b7bd3ad90e2f83418eedb8f6f93
Author: Kelly Sinnott <ksinnott5ht gmail com>
Date:   Mon Aug 29 11:11:51 2011 -0700

    wrote draft for process-priority-change

 help/C/process-priority-change.page |   17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/process-priority-change.page b/help/C/process-priority-change.page
index c43dd54..6101331 100644
--- a/help/C/process-priority-change.page
+++ b/help/C/process-priority-change.page
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
       type="topic" style="task"
       id="process-priority-change">
   <info>
-    <revision version="0.1" date="2011-08-19" status="stub"/>
+    <revision version="0.1" date="2011-08-28" status="review"/>
     <link type="guide" xref="index" group="processes-tasks" />
 
     <credit type="author copyright">
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
       <email>philbull gmail com</email>
       <years>2011</years>
     </credit>
+    <credit type="author copyright">
+      <name>Kelly Sinnott</name>
+      <email>ksinnott5ht gmail com</email>
+      <years>2011</years>
+    </credit>
 
     <desc>Let processes that are more important take a bigger share of the computer's resources.</desc>
   </info>
@@ -21,12 +26,14 @@
     <p>Explain how to change the nice value of a process, why you might want to do that, and what the 
implications might be.</p>
   </comment>
 
-  <p>Short introductory text...</p>
+  <p>The <em>nice</em> value of a process determines how much it allows other processes to take priority 
over itself. Processes with low nice values take up a bigger share of the available resources. If you would 
like to change a process's nice value, do the following:</p>
 
   <steps>
-    <item><p>First step...</p></item>
-    <item><p>Second step...</p></item>
-    <item><p>Third step...</p></item>
+    <item><p>Click the <gui>Processes</gui> tab in the <app>System Monitor</app> window.</p></item>
+    <item><p>Right-click on the process you would like to change the priority of.</p></item>
+    <item><p>Select <gui>Change Priority...</gui> from the menu.</p></item>
+    <item><p>Use the slider to select a nice value  (higher means a lower priority).</p></item>
+    <item><p>Click the <gui>Change Priority</gui> button.</p></item>
   </steps>
 
 </page>


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