Xref: utzoo news.admin:2785 news.software.b:1426 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!amdahl!pyramid!voder!tolerant!jane 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. Lines: 23 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 ============================================ Jane Medefesser uucp: {pyramid,mordor,oliveb,ucbvax}!tolerant!jane Tolerant Systems San Jose, Ca 95134