[LUNI] Scheduling question in 2.4/2.6

[Eugene Teo]

assuming setiathome runs as user root?

setiathome -nice 19 2&>1 /dev/null works the same, shorter :)

Eugene

<quote sender="Michael Knoop">
> renice will alter the priority of a running process.
> For setiathome I use this line in my crontab
> 
> 0 * * * * cd /home/mikek/setiathome; setiathome -nice 19 > /dev/null 2>
> /dev/null
> 
> It tries to start setiathome every hour.  If it is already running nothing
> happens, otherwise is starts it with nice level 19 (lowest priority =
> highest nice level).
> 
> Mike K
> 
> At 10:19 PM 4/11/04 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >Does anyone know of a way to fix the priority (vs. nice
> >level) of a process, either from w/in the proc or externally?
> >
> >One example is Solaris' scheduling table, where the scheduling
> >level can be fixed by returning the job to its original sched
> >value at the end of a task.
> >
> >Idea is to take something like setiathome and fix its
> >priority at, say, 20. The only way the job will get any
> >CPU at all is if there is nothing else runnable -- it
> >becomes essentially an idle task.
> >
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