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Date:      Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:27:35 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        glarkin@freebsd.org
Cc:        Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions -" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Set task priority
Message-ID:  <4ad871310906021627l72ccc95crd07b264f49a283ed@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A25B395.6060502@FreeBSD.org>
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Greg,

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Greg Larkin <glarkin@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> I had the same situation here, and nice(1) wasn't cutting it for me. =A0I
> finally switched to idprio(1):
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Didprio&sourceid=3Dopensearch
>
> idprio 31 mysqldump .....
>
> will run only when other processes are idle. =A0That should prevent any
> further self-incurred DOS symptoms for you.
>

Very cool.  I'll have to add that to my toolbox. :)

--=20
Glen Barber
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/glenjbarber



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