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From: fischer@utower.UUCP (Axel Fischer)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: renice
Message-ID: <62@utower.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 15:28:51 GMT
Reply-To: fischer@utower.UUCP (Axel Fischer)
Organization: The Well Of Souls (Berlin, West Germany)
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Hi netlanders,

after playing with renice a while an idea came to my mind.
How about writing a renice-daemon for SCO Xenix 386 ?
It should be invoked from /etc/rc and run in the background.
And what does it ?

It's resets the priority of a process to a lower priority if the process
runs longer than n minutes. n is configurable in the Makefile.
So the machine is not to busy with the single process.
(Maybe 2,3,4 ... minutes or whatever)

Of course the deamon should only touch user processes and not init :-)

How about that ?

-Axel
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