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From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
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Subject: Re: fixing a priority to an executable file
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.105545.860@cbfsb.att.com>
Date: 2 Jun 91 10:55:45 GMT
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In-Reply-To: zazula@soliton.uucp's message of 2 Jun 91 04: 31:05 GMT
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>>>>> On 2 Jun 91 04:31:05 GMT, zazula@soliton.uucp (Ralph Zazula) said:

Ralph> Distribution: usa,local
???

Ralph> Is it possible to have a program start with a higher priority when you
Ralph> execute it from a shell?  

[Maybe:]
$ mv program program_real
$ echo nice [some negative priority (only works for the superuser
	though)] program_real > program
$ chmod +x program #+sx ?

anyway, "[only] The super-user may run commands with priority higher
than normal by using a negative increment, e.g., - -10." so watch out
for set-uid shell script temptations.

Ralph> Specifically, I'd like to run C-Kermit at a
Ralph> slightly higher priority (read, it gets MORE CPU time).  I find that
Ralph> file transfers sometimes fail/abort when I run a CPU intensive process
Ralph> while C-Kermit is transferring a file.  This is on a 68030 NeXT computer
Ralph> running NextStep 2.0.  This OS is BSD-ish and built on Mach.