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From: Paul Allenby <pallenby@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: setting a really low priority...
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970605103350.6738B-100000@adam.adonai.net> from Lee Crites at "Jun 5, 97 11:13:05 am"
To: leec@adam.adonai.net (Lee Crites)
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 19:15:54 +0200 (SAT)
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"Lee Crites wrote:"
> 
> I'd like to have a few processes running on my system which will get,
> and maintain, a fixed priority.
> 
> Yes, I could use nice to change the initial priority.  In fact, that is
> how I am starting one other process on my system already.
> 
> But this isn't really what I'm looking for.  I'm more interested in
> porting my real-time code to fbsd. 
> 
> [note: in this discussion, a 'higher' priority means the process is more
> important, thus will be given more system resources, not that it's
> priority number is larger -- which would be a 'lower' priority in my
> discussion.]
> 
> My main scheduler task needs to be fixed at a really high priority.  It

Maybe the rtprio command is what you need.

Paul