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From: ksp@maxwell.nde.swri.edu (Keith S. Pickens)
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Subject: Backgound processing on a server?
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 26 Sep 89 17:05:21 GMT
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Has anyone done measurements of the effect on server performance of a
background process?

A `background process' is defined as a low priority ("niced" all the way
down) CPU bound process.  This process would do very little I/O and would
be small enough to avoid any paging.

Any measurements or informed opinions would be helpful.

I will summarize.  Thanks.

	-keith
	 ksp@maxwell.nde.swri.edu