From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 22 05:57:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61131065672 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:57:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 766218FC19 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:57:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o1M5v8W7007143 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:57:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:57:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:57:08 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20100222055703.GA15202@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX,J_CHICKENPOX_43 autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: Subject: if this is a stupid q... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:57:12 -0000 Excuse me, butthis IS a stupid question. I've tried to figure it out logically and by experimentation; just want to see if my findings jib with the unix wizards onlist. Now/then i do a portupgrade; I probably should just cron this, but it has given me problems before, so I do it while I can monitor the run. I'll do # portupgrade -akOPv then go ahead and work on other things. Question is What do I renice the run at [ruby] to set it to low at very low-power? I've tried like -17 and +17 (or just 17) because I learned that nice'ing the prio level higher than 0 was giving it a lower prio. Thus the rest of what I was doing could run anmost unaffected. Sometimes I'll be running a vi or two with portupgrade the Only other thing running [compiling, usually], and my editing is extremely slow. So what renice value should i use [normally]? Another question is for if i ever decide to cron portupgrade every week or so. What nice values is best? thanks, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php