Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:39:36 -0800 From: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net> Cc: janb@cs.utep.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how can I run utilities at idle time? Message-ID: <3A12CA58.5DBD2BF5@isi.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10011150957150.24219-100000@gecko> <20001115183715.371bf7a6.steveo@eircom.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:59:37 -0700 (MST) > <janb@cs.utep.edu> 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. If your definition of "idle" is "idle CPU time". If your bottleneck resource is something else (i.e. network or disk space), running processes under idprio will still consume bottleneck capacities. > 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) ? Priority inversion. Lars -- Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu> Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California [-- Attachment #2 --] 0# *H 01 0 + 0 *H 00A#0 *H 01 0 UZA10U Western Cape10U Durbanville10 U Thawte1 0U Certificate Services1(0&U Personal Freemail RSA 1999.9.160 000824203008Z 010824203008Z0T10 UEggert1 0 U*Lars10U Lars Eggert1 0 *H larse@isi.edu00 *H 0 \p9 H;v r∩6"C?mxfJ f7I[3CF́L I - zHRVA怤2]0-bL)%X>nӅ w0u0*+e!0 00L2uMyffBNUbNJJcdZ2s0U 0 larse@isi.edu0 U 0 0 U #0`fUXF a#Ì0 *H _3 F=%nWY-HXD9UOc6ܰw f@uܶNԄR?Pr} E1֮23 mFhySwM_h|d yR= $P 00} 0 *H 01 0 UZA10U Western Cape10U Cape Town10U Thawte Consulting1(0&U Certification Services Division1$0"UThawte Personal Freemail CA1+0) *H personal-freemail@thawte.com0 990916140140Z 010915140140Z01 0 UZA10U Western Cape10U Durbanville10 U Thawte1 0U Certificate Services1(0&U Personal Freemail RSA 1999.9.1600 *H 0 iZ z]!#rLK~r$BRW{azr98e^eyvL>hpu t ,O 1ArƦ]D.Mօ>lx~@эWs0FO 7050U 0 0 U #0rIs4U vr~wƲ0 *H kY1rr`HU{gapm¥7؝(V\uoƑlfq|ko!6- -mƃRt\~ orzg,ks n Νc) ~U10001 0 UZA10U Western Cape10U Durbanville10 U Thawte1 0U Certificate Services1(0&U Personal Freemail RSA 1999.9.16#0 + 0 *H 1 *H 0 *H 1 001115173936Z0# *H 1o\Y* *+'WΒ0R *H 1E0C0 *H 0*H 0+0 *H @0 *H (0 *H w| 6 \{(tI2#2N^6? :nb3|u*]Tj;FDP.% @O4BՔ1Z2trktxuӂ?
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