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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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