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 -- ************************************************************************** * UUNET ...!uunet!pride386!terry or ...!zardoz!pride386!terry * * FAX 714 739 2203 * WANTED: 1 fire-lizard, brown preferred * **************************************************************************
dag@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (David Geiser) (09/19/90)
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.