terry@pride386.UUCP (Terry Lyons) (09/13/90)
Hi ...
has anyone ever written a program that will {stop|suspend} a program if
the system load exceeds a given level ?
in other words I want to have a way of invoking a program so that if
the load-level goes over set figure that it (the system) will ignore
the program until the load drops below a set level.
something that is invoced like this : suspnd -l7.5,9.0 awk -f (some longwinded
program)
is there something like this already
or is this a lost cause???
terry
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Isn't a low priority job in fact suspended if there are higher priority programs running/runable? It shouldn't get any slices of time in that situation. Maybe I don't understand what you want.