From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 15 9:19: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from elsamss06947.elsevier.nl (elsamss06947.elsevier.nl [145.36.5.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D729F37B69B for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:19:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from elsamss06948.elsevier.nl (unverified) by elsamss06947.elsevier.nl (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.1.5) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:20:10 +0100 Received: from olorin.elsevier.nl (olorin.elsevier.nl [145.36.13.14]) by elsamss06948.elsevier.nl (2.6 Build 1 (Berkeley 8.8.6)/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA00091; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:15:53 +0100 Received: from lap1.sohara.org (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.13.27]) by olorin.elsevier.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA27919; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:18:58 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:37:15 +0000 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how can I run utilities at idle time? Message-Id: <20001115183715.371bf7a6.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.4 (GTK+ 1.2.8; FreeBSD 4.2-BETA; i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:59:37 -0700 (MST) wrote: > I would like to run a cron type service, but the utilities run from this > servic (updating the locate database, for example) should only take up > idle time on the computer. Does anybody know how to do this? idprio is the tool for doing this. There were some comments a while back that rtprio and idprio had problems and should not be used. Is this still the case (searching the archives is giving too many irrelevant hits) ? -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message