[ale] perl nice'ness

Jim Popovitch yahoo at jimpop.com
Sun Oct 7 02:34:28 EDT 2007


On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 01:48 -0400, List wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Is there a way to make perl scripts run nicer wrt to cpu utilization,
> > rather than at the default 0 nice?
> >
> > Thx, 
> >
> > -Jim P.
> >
> nice -19 perl <args>
> 
> or, if the script is already running,
> 
> renice 19 <process-id-of-perl>
> 
> ought to fix you up.

Well, I already know that... what I'm looking for is a way to
force /usr/bin/blah.pl to always be nice 10 regardless of who runs it.

Thanks.

-Jim P.



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