eloranta@tukki.jyu.fi (Jussi Eloranta) (10/22/90)
Archive-name: reallynice/20-Oct-90 Original-posting-by: eloranta@tukki.jyu.fi (Jussi Eloranta) Original-subject: Re: Program to renice jobs Archive-site: jyu.fi [128.214.7.5] Archive-directory: /pub/local Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <1990Oct19.173229.16217@ucselx.sdsu.edu> nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash) writes: >In article <1990Oct19.094659@granada.mit.edu> andrew@granada.mit.edu (Andrew Gunstensen) writes: >>Is there a good method of renicing jobs automatically once they >>have exceeded some CPU time limit? My problem is that we >>have a large number of (relatively UNIX-clueless) users who >>tend to run largish background jobs on our Sun network >>at niceness 0. >>This noticeably degrades interactive performance. So we >>would like to be able to run some program/shell script which >>would check running jobs and if they have more than (say) >>15 minutes CPU time and (say) they are not the X server (or >>other jobs which we will allow to use as much time as they >>like) then renice them down to some lower priority level. >> Look into anon. ftp area @ jyu.fi (/pub/local) there should reallynice.c.Z That should do the job. This should work with sunos 4.0 without any problems. Jussi -- ============================================================================ Jussi Eloranta Internet(/Bitnet): University of Jyvaskyla, eloranta@tukki.jyu.fi Finland [128.214.7.5]