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From: ardis@wanginst.EDU (Mark A. Ardis)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Emacs process niced after awhile
Message-ID: <1257@wanginst.EDU>
Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 15:59:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: wanginst.1257
Posted: Thu Jun 25 15:59:14 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 04:01:15 EDT
Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.  01879
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Keywords: emacs, nice
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Problem: 

After running Gnuemacs for awhile, my process gets "nice"ed.  Response
is pretty bad once this happens.  The threshold seems to be around 12
minutes of CPU.  We are running Ultrix 1.2 on a VAX 785.

Questions:

1.  Is there a magic threshold, after which a process automatically
	gets "nice"ed?

2.  Is there a way to prevent this behavior for "special" processes?
	(I.e., can Ultrix be told not to "nice" certain programs?)

3.  Are there any alternatives to killing and restarting the process?

Thanks for any help you can give us.
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Mark A. Ardis                           ardis%wanginst@CSNet-Relay (CSNet)
Wang Institute of Graduate Studies      ...!decvax!wanginst!ardis (UUCP)
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