Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:24:51 +1100 From: Zero Sum <count@shalimar.net.au> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>, <janb@cs.utep.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how can I run utilities at idle time? Message-ID: <00111609240100.43667@shalimar.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20001115183715.371bf7a6.steveo@eircom.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10011150957150.24219-100000@gecko> <20001115183715.371bf7a6.steveo@eircom.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thursday 16 November 2000 05:37, 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) ? > I use them frequently, but I have only had trouble when tring to set the proprities back to normal with -t or artitmeticly. Once changed, they refer to stay changed. Geoff -- count@shalimar.net.au Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: sRYNE55Bv66/3cgcmI5pIjrTKOJ7HLu4 iQA/AwUBOhMNM/h4xz7LU/evEQJV9wCeKlRyhO/9Ro0tLFkwv6SGa1iiwEYAoN9D eDoIDilgtfui/Jaw1l0u1x1H =2Y77 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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