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From: jkimble@bally.Bally.COM (The Programmer Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: suspension of long process
Summary: easier solution
Message-ID: <381@bally.Bally.COM>
Date: 15 Oct 90 21:54:22 GMT
References: <3940@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <1990Oct4.042038.25382@kfw.COM>
Reply-To: jkimble@bally.bally.com (The Programmer Guy)
Organization: The Pros From Dover
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If your flavor of UNIX allows you to vary the "nice" values plus/minus,
why not just bump the priority way, way, way down during the day and
then bring it back up to normal during the evening.

This would allow the process to keep chugging along in the day time
without getting too much in the way, and it might be able to grab
some "free" time during non-active hours (like lunch time).

This seems a lot less messy than starting/stopping;  is there any
badness associated with dynamic changes to the NICE values that
I've overlooked?

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--Jim Kimble,						jkimble@bally.bally.com
Consulting for Bally Systems				  uunet!bally!jkimble

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