Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
1. Is there a cron for Windows? I would like to run something like:
cd /path/to/application
ant create.reference.data
before coming into work.
Look up the command "at". I think if you run "at help" on the command
line, it'll help you out.
2. Is there a nice for Windows?
I don't think the ref data is built any faster when it has full
control of my system. I really would like to read digg.com while
the data is being built. Is there a way to nice a process in Windows?
MS discourages people from playing around with process priorities
because, in my experience, it is easy for processes to get CPU starved
or to hog the CPU - not a lot of subtlety in the scheduler, I think.
Better to just run it when you're not around.
My guess is that you're killing the disk, writing tons of data as fast
as you can pull it over a gigabit ethernet - if that's the case, and you
need to be able to use the computer meanwhile, you could always add a
sleep() call (or Java equivalent) to wait a little while after each
write to disk. Also look at how much data you're gathering before each
write - maybe it'll help Windows if you build a larger buffer of binary
data and do fewer, larger writes... just a thought.
-Harold
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