Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!twg!bill From: bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: "Nice" or not to "nice" large jobs Keywords: scheduling priority nice Message-ID: <2142@twg.bc.ca> Date: 21 May 91 20:05:33 GMT References: <3197@sparko.gwu.edu> <1991May16.145927.9815@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Reply-To: bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) Organization: The Westrheim Group, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 21 phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes: : Furthermore, if there is a CPU intensive or paging intensive or : (I think even) an i/o intensive process running, interactive performance : is *noticeably* degraded. Get about 2 or 3 of them running and you : have a system that crawls for the interactive users. But, renice all : three of those hog processes to even 4 and interactive use is once : again snappy. : So even on the VAX you had to put up with about 20 minutes of "hell" : before the system would renice the offending process. I have often wanted to be able to "nice" a running process. Is there any way to do this under SCO XENIX 2.3.3? : -- Bill Irwin - The Westrheim Group - Vancouver, BC, Canada ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ uunet!van-bc!twg!bill (604) 431-9600 (voice) | Your Computer bill@twg.bc.ca (604) 430-4329 (fax) | Systems Partner