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- From: ori@marvin.technion.ac.il (Ori Degani)
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- Subject: Re: Interactive vs Background users
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.143104.6301@discus.technion.ac.il>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 14:31:04 GMT
- References: <1dsh2fINNeok@manuel.anu.edu.au> <1992Nov13.042252.11811@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Nov13.042252.11811@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au>, anthony@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen) writes:
- |> aps583@huxley.anu.edu.au (Anthony P Scott) writes:
- |> | The problem is that they are only used
- |> | for a small part of the day and certainly not at night. WE wish to
- |> | soak up the excess CPU cycles by running GAUSSIAN and other cpu
- |> | intensive programs in the background.
- |> |
- |> | Unfortunately when an interactive user comes along the terminal response
- |> | is terrible, they get upset and we are forced to kill the background
- |> | proccess.
- |> |
- |> If you nice the background process (heavly) you will find that the
- |> backgroud program only runs when no other process is available.
- |>
- |> IE: instead for running
- |>
- |> gaussian &
- |>
- |> run
- |>
- |> nice -15 gaussian &
- |>
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- Doesn't this make priority very HIGH?!
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- |>
- |> This puts the programs prioity very low. so if the machine is not busy
- |> it will get run otherwise it will wait until the cpu is free.
- |>
- |>
- |> Anthony Thyssen - (SysProg @ Griffith University) anthony@cit.gu.edu.au
- |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> ``Never argue with a computer.'' -- Avon, Blake's 7
- |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- | ---- Ori Degani
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