Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: ksp@maxwell.nde.swri.edu (Keith S. Pickens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Backgound processing on a server? Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <1729@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 26 Sep 89 17:05:21 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 13 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 139, message 6 of 11 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