16.1 Background jobs

Yes, a Sage job can be run in the background on a UNIX system. The canonical thing to do is type

nohup sage < command_file  > output_file &
The advantage of nohup is that Sage will continue running after you log out.

Currently Sage will appear as ``ipython'' or ``python'' in the output of the (unix) ``top'' command, but in future versions of Sage it will appears as ``sage''.

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