Date: 15 Nov 2000 18:16:40 +0100 From: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se> To: <janb@cs.utep.edu> Cc: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se> Subject: Re: how can I run utilities at idle time? Message-ID: <84r94dtatj.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se> In-Reply-To: <janb@cs.utep.edu>'s message of "Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:59:37 -0700 (MST)" References: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10011150957150.24219-100000@gecko>
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>>>>> "j" == janb <janb@cs.utep.edu> writes: j> I would like to run a cron type service, but the utilities run from this j> servic (updating the locate database, for example) should only take up j> idle time on the computer. Does anybody know how to do this? This sounds more like a -questions topic to me, see http://www.se.freebsd.org/handbook/eresources.html for details. Anyway, depending on your definition of "idle", a good way, at least in FreeBSD which have a good sheduler and a good VM system, is to simply run the task nice(1). -- Rasmus Kaj ------------------------ rasmus@kaj.se - http://Raditex.se/~kaj/ \ If you're happy, you're successful \----------------------------------------------------- http://Raditex.se/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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