From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 15 14:27:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shalimar.net.au (shalimar.net.au [198.142.161.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB3E37B4CF for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:26:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from shalimar.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shalimar.net.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eAFMOCb43915; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:24:22 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from count@shalimar.net.au) From: Zero Sum Organization: Tobacco Chewers and Body Painters Association. Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:24:51 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , References: <20001115183715.371bf7a6.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: <20001115183715.371bf7a6.steveo@eircom.net> Subject: Re: how can I run utilities at idle time? MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00111609240100.43667@shalimar.net.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Status: RO X-Status: Q Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----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) > 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