# Add \`nice -19\` worker process
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-nice-19-worker-process/14471
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** parallel
**Created:** [September 3, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-nice-19-worker-process/14471 "2018-09-03T10:35:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-nice-19-worker-process/14471/1 "2018-09-03T10:35:28Z")
I want to start a worker process on a different node with a certain [niceness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(Unix)).
Basically, I want to prepend the command generated by `addprocs(["mynode"])` with `nice -19`.
As has suggested to me on Slack, there is the `exename` keyword argument for [addprocs](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v0.6.4/stdlib/parallel/#Base.Distributed.addprocs). However, this seems to get `Base.shell_escape`d and what I effectively get is `cmd = `'nice -19 julia'`` instead of `cmd = `nice -19 julia`` which will lead to a bash error (`No such file or directory`).
Any ideas how to solve this?
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### Author:  [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-nice-19-worker-process/14471/2 "2018-09-03T10:47:08Z")
You used a `String` I guess? Try using a `Cmd` object:
```julia
julia> using Distributed
julia> addprocs(1, exename = `nice -19 julia`)
1-element Array{Int64,1}:
2
```
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### Author:  [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 10:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-nice-19-worker-process/14471/3 "2018-09-03T10:57:46Z")
That works, thanks!