Best way to renice a process by name?

2006-09-26 Thread Brett Glass
I'm working with a machine that's operating as a NAT router and recursive DNS resolver and is also running the Squid disk cache. Squid, in turn, spawns the diskd daemon, which does disk accesses on behalf of Squid. When Squid spawns diskd, it gives it a priority level 6 greater than itself. In

Re: Best way to renice a process by name?

2006-09-26 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I'm working with a machine that's operating as a NAT router and recursive DNS resolver and is also running the Squid disk cache. Squid, in turn, spawns the diskd daemon, which does disk accesses on behalf of Squid. When Squid spawns diskd, it gives it a priority level 6 greater than itself. In

Re: Best way to renice a process by name?

2006-09-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:32 AM -0600 9/26/06, Brett Glass wrote: Is there a renice by name utility for FreeBSD (sort of an equivalent of killall)? I could gin one up, but since this seems like something that people would want to do frequently, find it hard to believe that someone hasn't already written one.

Re: Best way to renice a process by name?

2006-09-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-09-26 09:32, Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working with a machine that's operating as a NAT router and recursive DNS resolver and is also running the Squid disk cache. Squid, in turn, spawns the diskd daemon, which does disk accesses on behalf of Squid. When Squid spawns