Last Updated on May 22, 2022
Summary
When someone describes their computer feeling slow, it’s typically not computers sporting old CPUs. CPU usage is generally not a serious bottleneck, unless you’re doing very intensive computation. GPU is also rarely a bottleneck unless you’re into heavy gaming, or 4K rendering.
So why do you get lag while playing a game and compiling software, or interact with your KDE/GNOME/MATE desktop. Or find Dropbox reduce your system to a crawl? It’s a combination of CPU/GPU/IO/memory and more.
You want a single daemon to fix these problems. Use Ananicy. It works so great, it’s a must-have utility.
Ananicy offers a huge number of ready-to-use rules for many popular applications, and it’s easy to tweak them, or add rules for other programs. Best take an existing rule as a template and tweak it for any programs you run that don’t already have a rule.
For a complete list of the programs and rules, here’s the rules cache (generated with the “ananicy dump rules” command). As you can see, the applications comes with over 220 rules for both open source and proprietary Linux programs. A lot of care and careful thought has gone into defining each application’s settings.
Ananicy is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Website: github.com/Nefelim4ag/Ananicy
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Developer: Timofey Titovets and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Summary
Complete list of articles in this series:
| Excellent Utilities | |
|---|---|
| AES Crypt | Encrypt files using the Advanced Encryption Standard |
| Ananicy | Shell daemon created to manage processes’ IO and CPU priorities |
| broot | Next gen tree explorer and customizable launcher |
| Cerebro | Fast application launcher |
| cheat.sh | Community driven unified cheat sheet |
| CopyQ | Advanced clipboard manager |
| croc | Securely transfer files and folders from the command-line |
| Deskreen | Live streaming your desktop to a web browser |
| duf | Disk usage utility with more polished presentation than the classic df |
| eza | A turbo-charged alternative to the venerable ls command |
| Extension Manager | Browse, install and manage GNOME Shell Extensions |
| fd | Wonderful alternative to the venerable find |
| fkill | Kill processes quick and easy |
| fontpreview | Quickly search and preview fonts |
| horcrux | File splitter with encryption and redundancy |
| Kooha | Simple screen recorder |
| KOReader | Document viewer for a wide variety of file formats |
| Imagine | A simple yet effective image optimization tool |
| LanguageTool | Style and grammar checker for 30+ languages |
| Liquid Prompt | Adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh |
| lnav | Advanced log file viewer for the small-scale; great for troubleshooting |
| lsd | Like exa, lsd is a turbo-charged alternative to ls |
| Mark Text | Simple and elegant Markdown editor |
| McFly | Navigate through your bash shell history |
| mdless | Formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files |
| noti | Monitors a command or process and triggers a notification |
| Nushell | Flexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel |
| nvitop | GPU process management for NVIDIA graphics cards |
| OCRmyPDF | Add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs |
| Oh My Zsh | Framework to manage your Zsh configuration |
| Paperwork | Designed to simplify the management of your paperwork |
| pastel | Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors |
| PDF Mix Tool | Perform common editing operations on PDF files |
| peco | Simple interactive filtering tool that's remarkably useful |
| ripgrep | Recursively search directories for a regex pattern |
| Rnote | Sketch and take handwritten notes |
| scrcpy | Display and control Android devices |
| Sticky | Simulates the traditional “sticky note” style stationery on your desktop |
| tldr | Simplified and community-driven man pages |
| tmux | A terminal multiplexer that offers a massive boost to your workflow |
| Tusk | An unofficial Evernote client with bags of potential |
| Ulauncher | Sublime application launcher |
| Watson | Track the time spent on projects |
| Whoogle Search | Self-hosted and privacy-focused metasearch engine |
| Zellij | Terminal workspace with batteries included |