From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 25 15:39:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from maxcow.borg.com (MaxCow.borg.com [205.217.206.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A21F14F51 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 15:39:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@borg.com) Received: from mail.borg.com (mail.borg.com [205.217.206.192]) by maxcow.borg.com (8.9.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13812; Tue, 25 May 1999 18:39:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from borg.com (ip198a.borg.com [208.3.180.198]) by mail.borg.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA25112; Tue, 25 May 1999 18:39:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <374B285A.10B2C8A1@borg.com> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:46:50 -0400 From: "Mark S. Reichman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SETI@home has teams now! References: <19990525023006.9612E1505D@hub.freebsd.org> <374A0FD6.B2162D40@borg.com> <374A11D8.3B34029A@uswest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message Yes. The setiathome process runs by default at a nice level of 1. All other progs by default run at 0. So, the seti folks already have made their process the least damaging. If you want to make it the same (0) or higher (-1) than other processes su to root. then: $> renice 0 setiathomes_pid The lower the nice level, that more CPU a process gets. Also, do a : $> man nice OR $> man renice To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message