Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:10:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net> Cc: janb@cs.utep.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how can I run utilities at idle time? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011161609260.43795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001115183715.371bf7a6.steveo@eircom.net>
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:59:37 -0700 (MST) > <janb@cs.utep.edu> wrote: > > > I would like to run a cron type service, but the utilities run from this > > servic (updating the locate database, for example) should only take up > > idle time on the computer. Does anybody know how to do this? > > idprio is the tool for doing this. > > There were some comments a while back that rtprio and idprio had problems and > should not be used. Is this still the case (searching the archives is giving too many > irrelevant hits) ? > It is trivially easy to create system-hanging deadlocks with idprio. Use nice instead. If you need an example, try running setiathome at idprio. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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