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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:37:15 +0000
From:      "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>
To:        <janb@cs.utep.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how can I run utilities at idle time?
Message-ID:  <20001115183715.371bf7a6.steveo@eircom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10011150957150.24219-100000@gecko>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.05.10011150957150.24219-100000@gecko>

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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) ?

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