ed@maven.UUCP (Ed Hand) (09/15/88)
I am curently on system V R3.1 V3.1.0.1 I am running a program that converts 24 bit pixel data from a ray trace into a raster format that can be read by my output routine. This conversion is a time consumming (both real and cpu) operation. I have tried using nice to give the job a slower priority. After the job starts the process show a nice value of 39 but the priority is still at 20 (same as without the nice option). Due to the intensity of this process the rest of the users on the workstation are severely inhibited by slow response times. Does nice not work as I seem to think it should? Or is there some other way to slow it down? Working slowly, Ed