Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:40:37 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic maintenaince Message-ID: <20100123014037.3daaae97@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20100122235433.GA35458@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <27280687.post@talk.nabble.com> <20100122235433.GA35458@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:54:33 +0100 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > What you could do is prepend the find(1) commands with the nice(1) > command, to give the find commands lower priority. E.g. 'find -bla' > then becomes '/usr/bin/nice -n 19 find -bla'. Unless there's something under periodic that really needs normal priority, it's easier to modify /etc/crontab so that all periodic tasks run under nice.
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