On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 01:29:04AM +0200, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
> 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. ;-)
>
No, it won't, because gzip, dump and tar are started from amandad
which gets started out of inetd.
> > 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).
>
Amanda is a _network_ archiver and there is no command
to nice a whole network.
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