At 7:19 PM -0400 11/6/10, Robert Rice wrote: > Can I lower the priority of my MacRuby application?
There are some commands that mess with the scheduling priority, but this (AFAIK) only deals with CPU activity. It sounds like the problem you're having is related to I/O bandwidth. That said, here are some man pages: % man nice ... nice -- execute a utility with an altered scheduling priority ... % man renice ... renice -- alter priority of running processes ... -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume r...@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, system design _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel