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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:25:05 -0500
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>
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To: Steven <steven@trance.org>
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Subject: Re: Limiting resources
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Steven wrote:
> 
> hello
> 
> my 4.1 machine is set up to analyse its logs at 1.53am each night.
> 
> All is great, but it uses up so much resources (the harddisk light is
> constantly flashing for minutes) that it stops routing (nat), which kind of
> defeats the machine's purpose.
> 
> Is there a way to easily limit the amount of resources the analysis takes,
> so it doesn't impare the functionality of natd?

Run the machine under nice 10 or nice 20.
see the man page for nice for details.

-Bill


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