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Subject: Re: Twice as many OS/2 as FreeBSD ??? 
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 04:25:09 -0700
From: Dave Andersen <angio@angio.net>
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> Personally, I renice the process to +20 - is there really much difference
> between +19 and +20? Just curious... :-)
> 
> At any rate, with the process running at nice +20 I can see no
> notiecable slow down on my system. Pretty neat. Unix. It works. Go
> figure.  :-)

   If you're really concerned about it, then idprio them:

idprio 31 rc564 <whatever>

   This will cause the process to _only_ execute when there is nothing
else that can run; nice +20 will still grab a little tiny bit of
CPU time every now and then.

    Functionally, it doesn't make much of a difference, but for the
paranoid, the option is there, and it can't hurt if you're running
the rc5 client on a machine that's used for other things.

   -Dave