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Just a quick message to say great work to Neo and any others who have helped with the upgrade - the layout, appearance and functionality of this forum ROCKS. By far the best I have seen. Excellent! (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Can someone tell me .. how to find a user & process who has executed nice (scheduled priority) to one of his process. .Tks.. (5 Replies)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Under, Solaris 10 I have the following problem: A script executed at command line runs with nice level 0, as expected. Same script started under (user) crontab runs with nice level 2. I would prefer it run at 0. Is this possible? If so, how? Thanks. (0 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Can someone tell me this. thanks (1 Reply)

5. Programming

Hi I want to implement the nice command in the shell that I am building. I came to know that there is a corresponding nice() system call for the same. But since I will be forking different processes to run different commands typed on the command prompt, is there any way I can make a command... (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hello everybody: I have some job running on tru64 system and Im the root, due to limited resources I end up with my job ( vdump) for example taking the lowest share, I researched the nice command on the net, but couldnt get enough info, can I use it to already running process or I only use it... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello, Some guy said to me that using the nice command to decrease the priority of a process is a myth, that the operating system corrects the priorities as the processes need cpu. Is this true? (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am just starting with shell scripting, as everyone will soon see from my question. What I'm trying to do is call the Nice command to set the script process priority from /bin/ksh. The difference is I'm running it not directly through the shell, but through Bigfix (very similar to... (3 Replies)

9. BSD

Hello Folks, Recently our FreeBSD 7.1 i386 system became very sluggish. Nothing much is happening over there & whatever is running takes eternity to complete. All the troubleshooting hinted towards a very high nice percentage. Can that be the culprit? Pasting snippets of top command,... (7 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

with using wall command, how can i have a carriage return in my broadcast message. i try to broadcast from a file, i were to use "cat myfile | wall" for broadcasting. but when the message broadcast somehow the format run away. this the text in my file: line 1 line 2 line 3 when broadcast ... (3 Replies)