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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 04:43:21 -0700
From:      Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net>
To:        Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, crh@outpost.co.nz, "Mark S. Reichman" <mark@borg.com>
Subject:   Re: SETI@home has teams now!
Message-ID:  <374A8CD9.F399E3C2@uswest.net>
References:  <XFMail.990525123235.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> On 25-May-99 Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> >  On that note, is there are a way a put a limit on the load a process
> >  creates under FreeBSD?  It would be great if I could leave S@h running
> >  all the time under a load limit, then just lift that limit while I'm
> >  not using the machine.
> 
> You can give it an idle priority (idprio) which basically means it is always
> chosen last for CPU.

idprio seems to have the effect I was aiming for--there's hardly any
performance hit on the rest of the system/software--but the load is
considerably higher than I had wanted for running it during business
hours.  I think idprio has a good chance of working.  Thanks.


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