[CS-FSLUG] A celeb among us!

[Frank Bax]

At 01:27 AM 8/20/04, listmail at rotundus.com wrote:

>Quoting "Timothy R. Butler" <tbutler at uninetsolutions.com>:
>
> > over "5" during the onslaught. When processing statistics for accounts
> > late at night, on the other hand, it might hit 20 for a very short
> > time.  So things went very smoothly.
>
>Perhaps you could try lowering the priority of the stats-gathering 
>process? (ie.
>can you use something like nice?)


nice affects scheduling priority, not system load.  Giving the 
stats-gathering process a lower priority will allow other processes to 
interrupt it, but will not lower system load unless somehow the 
interrupting process uses fewer (is this even possible?) resources than the 
interrupted process.

Frank