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  4. From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
  5. Subject: Re: Interactive vs Background users
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov18.123500.18090@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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  9. Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
  10. References: <1dsh2fINNeok@manuel.anu.edu.au> <1992Nov13.042252.11811@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au> <1992Nov15.143104.6301@discus.technion.ac.il>
  11. Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:35:00 GMT
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  14. In <1992Nov15.143104.6301@discus.technion.ac.il> ori@marvin.technion.ac.il (Ori Degani) writes:
  15. >|> 
  16. >|>      nice -15 gaussian &
  17. >|> 
  18.  
  19. >  Doesn't this make priority very HIGH?!
  20.  
  21. Depends on what 'nice' command you use :) BTW, an ordinary user can never
  22. increase the priority.
  23.  
  24. As to the original problem, there are situations where even a nice doesn't
  25. help. F.e. if your background job competes for system resources other than
  26. CPU time like virtual memory and I/O bandwidth or if it uses some server
  27. process that isn't 'nice'd.
  28.  
  29. Regards,
  30. -- 
  31. Michael van Elst
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