Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:23:37 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to "renice" a process by name? Message-ID: <p0623090ec13f1fb4ea38@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060926090533.083a2a88@lariat.net> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060926090533.083a2a88@lariat.net>
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At 9:32 AM -0600 9/26/06, Brett Glass wrote:
>
>Is there a "renice by name" utility for FreeBSD (sort of an
>equivalent of "killall")? I could gin one up, but since this seems
>like something that people would want to do frequently, find it hard
>to believe that someone hasn't already written one.
FreeBSD added the `pgrep' command sometime ago. Your renice-by-name
script would turn into something like:
renice +2 `pgrep diskd`
(I have not tested that, and you might want to embellish it by adding
some of the other options to the `pgrep' command)
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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