From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 17:13:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300B116A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:13:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C6C243D3F for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:13:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j13HDgKd047382; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:13:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:13:42 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Mark Message-ID: <20050203171342.GC65765@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200502030836.j138aUQm005250@asarian-host.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502030836.j138aUQm005250@asarian-host.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' Subject: Re: Scheduling priority X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:13:56 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 03), Mark said: > Say, I start a process as follows (just an example of a daemon): > > /usr/bin/nice --10 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -DSSL > > Would this aversely affect overall FreeBSD (4.10) performance > when the daemon is idle? Or only when it actually starts > doing something? Only when it's consuming CPU. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com