From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 25 4:43:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87C4F14DA1 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 04:43:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 13872 invoked by alias); 25 May 1999 11:43:25 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 13831 invoked by uid 0); 25 May 1999 11:43:25 -0000 Received: from cdsl201.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (209.180.170.201) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 25 May 1999 11:43:25 -0000 Message-ID: <374A8CD9.F399E3C2@uswest.net> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 04:43:21 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, crh@outpost.co.nz, "Mark S. Reichman" Subject: Re: SETI@home has teams now! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 25-May-99 Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > On that note, is there are a way a put a limit on the load a process > > creates under FreeBSD? It would be great if I could leave S@h running > > all the time under a load limit, then just lift that limit while I'm > > not using the machine. > > You can give it an idle priority (idprio) which basically means it is always > chosen last for CPU. idprio seems to have the effect I was aiming for--there's hardly any performance hit on the rest of the system/software--but the load is considerably higher than I had wanted for running it during business hours. I think idprio has a good chance of working. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message