[CS-FSLUG] A celeb among us!
Frank Bax
fbax at sympatico.ca
Fri Aug 20 08:10:02 CDT 2004
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
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