> Not quite sure if this is what you're looking for, but I've had success > running similar tasks (like FTP) by starting the session with screen, then > detaching the screen. It continues to run, but with a lower priority.
Thanks for the suggestion (although the man pages of "screen" do not suggest anything about the "nice" CPU priority of the running tasks -- I will play with screen to see how it behaves). The "priority" that I am speaking of is not the CPU priority, but a TCP/IP queuing priority. If I do not specify a queuing discipline, I find that bittorrent will use all of the available bandwidth (or up to a limit specified on the command line) for uploading files to other BT users. However, I want it to use only my unused bandwidth, and not to compete with my other traffic. Alan -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
