Gael Lepetit wrote: > > It's not what I want. > I've made a mistake about my problem (and my poor english as not helped > me).
But it will work. ;-) > I want to nice the compression of the dump (the > "ufsdump|ufsrestore|gzip") on the clients. > > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > Assuming you use something like a crontab entry for your > > amdump call, put it there. Or have your crontab entry > > start a shell script that does the "nice -5 amdump ..." If you start a "niced" process, it subprocesses will also be nice to others. Verify it via $ nice bash $ top This process you'll look at will be niced, i.e. have an "N" in the STAT column and 10 in the NI column (the actual value may depend on your system).
