"Nice" or not to "nice" large jobs

[Bill Irwin]

phil at eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:

: Furthermore, if there is a CPU intensive or paging intensive or
: (I think even) an i/o intensive process running, interactive performance
: is *noticeably* degraded.  Get about 2 or 3 of them running and you
: have a system that crawls for the interactive users.  But, renice all
: three of those hog processes to even 4 and interactive use is once
: again snappy.

: So even on the VAX you had to put up with about 20 minutes of "hell"
: before the system would renice the offending process.

I have often wanted to be able to "nice" a running process.  Is
there any way to do this under SCO XENIX 2.3.3?

:               <phil at eecs.nwu.edu>
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