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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 12:32:35 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, crh@outpost.co.nz, "Mark S. Reichman" <mark@borg.com>
Subject:   Re: SETI@home has teams now!
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990525123235.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <374A11D8.3B34029A@uswest.net>

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On 25-May-99 Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>  On that note, is there are a way a put a limit on the load a process
>  creates under FreeBSD?  It would be great if I could leave S@h running
>  all the time under a load limit, then just lift that limit while I'm
>  not using the machine.

You can give it an idle priority (idprio) which basically means it is always
chosen last for CPU.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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