Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!sean From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: auto-niceing processes? Message-ID: <2051@ukma.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 15:59:55 EDT Article-I.D.: ukma.2051 Posted: Mon Aug 12 15:59:55 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 05:57:37 EDT References: <3086@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) Distribution: net Organization: The White Tower @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 20 In article <3086@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >... >The problem we're running into is simply large amounts of development >going on -- yesterday I found that we had 15 makes and a troff running >simultaneously, and only two of the makes were niced. Even on a 780, this >makes using emacs, vi, or even logging out relatively painful. What I want >to do is give the foreground, terminal based processes priority without >having to manually keep an eye on things... You might look into the Load Control System by Keith Muller. With it, one can control the use of cpu-intensive non-interactive programs based upon the load average. It has worked quite well here (until we got BRL 4.2, more on that in net.sources.bugs). -- - Sean Casey UUCP: sean@ukma.UUCP or - Department of Mathematics {cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean - University of Kentucky ARPA: ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA