From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10122 invoked from network); 15 Jan 1997 15:37:54 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Jan 1997 15:37:53 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA05312; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:43:44 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:35:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199701151536.HAA29824@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) X-Image-URL: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/Timothy_J_Luoma-X-Face.tiff X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 2.0b5) From: Timothy J Luoma Date: Wed, 15 Jan 97 10:36:03 -0500 To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: "nice"ing processes Reply-To: luomat@peak.org Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Resent-Message-ID: <"7KXDB2.0.jC1.daFto"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/602 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu say I want to run a CPU intensive program (like gzip on a large file) and want to do so with the least amount of impact (cpu/whatnot). What should I do? Running it in the background doesn't seem to make that much of a difference. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]