man nice. perl doesn't seem to have a nice function. so you might have to invoke the nice system call. you could also take a look at setpriority (linux, *BSD, SYSV should support it too). using it you can alter the scheduling priority of a process, children. /kk On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:15:24AM +0100, Pierre Smolarek wrote: > Is it possibly, and if so how, to change the cpu priority of a perl script or its >forked children? > > > Regards, > > Pierre
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- Karthik Krishnamurthy
