Nicer than nice!

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <9400 at cat.UUCP>, ad at cat (Axel Dunkel) writes:
| Is there a possibility to change the priority of a process more than a
| 'nice -19' would do? I would like be able to start programs in background
| that get cpu time only if there is nearly nothing 'better' to do, so that
| they don't cosume cpu time while there are other processes (apart from
| init etc. of course) running. (for UNIX Sys V, R3.2).

Nice isn't really a "priority" (the manpage lies) -- just a "hint" to
the scheduler.  There isn't anything in off-the-shelf UNIX that tags
the process as "don't run this unless nobody else is doing much of
anything."

Just another UNIX hacker,
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