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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
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 15:59:55 1985
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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).


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