Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Feb 1997 08:01:56 -0800 (PST) | From | mdean <> | Subject | Process accounting.. |
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Is their a way that I can limit a certain process and its children to a fixed amount of %CPU usage (not nice). For instance I have a process which tars and gzips the whole filesystem daily and I want to limit to 5% cpu usage (it will run much slower -- and I realize this is not the ideas behind preemptive operation), but I want to keep the system responsive --- Actually It normally only uses about 70% cpu, I think the unresponsiveness comes from the i/o it does in the disk, what about being able to throttle that back -- kind of like an anti-thrashing mechanism.
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