The nice command worked very... well fine to avoid a pun :) Thank you
JK
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Tempel, Philippe wrote:
> > Is there any way i can limit the cpu time a processes takes? more
> > specificly ipop3d? Once in a while i get a runaway one that takes 99%
> > of
> > my cpu time up and blocks others from accessing popmail. Also my
> > syslogd
> > process usually hovers at around 25% and i want to keep that down a
> > little
> > too.
> >
> [Tempel, Philippe] You can take a look at the nice
> command. It won't cause processes to automagically
> have less work, but it will let you give them a lower
> priority so the other processes can get the CPU time
> more often. Start with "man nice".
>
>
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