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From: bobd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Bob Debula)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Any "renice" type function for HP-UX
Keywords: Priority nice renice
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Date: 11 Apr 90 17:27:00 GMT
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On our Suns there is a command "renice" which may be used by the
superuser to change the priority of any process already in execution.
Is there an equivalent function for HP-UX?  If not, how does one
keep a single user/process from snarfing up most of the CPU?
I ask this because we had a few modeling processes which were
eating enough CPU to make interactive response for our e-mail users
and news readers noticeably slower (we'd like to create some sort 
of script which would run every 5-10 minutes, scan for background
tasks (those consuming inordinate CPU anyways) and renice them to be,
well, err... nicer).  Any ideas on how this could be done (has
anyone already done a similar thing for HP-UX)? 

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Bob DeBula                    | Internet:   bobd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu
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