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From: jane@tolerant.UUCP (Jane Medefesser)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: a "nice" rnews...
Keywords: cpu hog, high load average
Message-ID: <1751@tolerant.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 88 16:54:31 GMT
Organization: Slobbering Systems, Inc.
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Is there a way I can "nice" rnews to a lower priority? I thought
about renaming rnews to nrnews then making rnews a shell script
that does a "nice -5 nrnews" but I suspect it's not that simple.
Obviously I haven't thought about this much and I am hoping someone
else has and is willing to share the info.  

The problem is this: when rnews runs during normal working hours
it raises the load ave. on this system so high that getting any
real work done become tedious.  If I "renice" the process it just
"renice's" itself back to 0.

(I don't want to restrict polling during non-business hourse because 
we also exchange email with this system....)

Help?
Thanks in advance


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Jane Medefesser		uucp: {pyramid,mordor,oliveb,ucbvax}!tolerant!jane
Tolerant Systems
San Jose, Ca  95134