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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: suspension of long process
Message-ID: <30780002@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 90 17:29:34 GMT
References: <3940@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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You and your "System Administration" should also find out about nice(1),
since this is probably much more appropriate to your situation than stopping
and starting your process.  There should be no problem with running your
process during the day if it is set to run at a lower priority.

To use nice(1) to run a program "prog" that takes arguments "arg1 arg2 ...",
do:

   nice -5 prog arg1 arg2 ...

This runs prog at priority likely to be lower than most other processes.
It will only run when there is nothing more "important" to do.

Dave