On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:54:33 +0100 Roland Smith <rsm...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> What you could do is prepend the find(1) commands with the nice(1) > command, to give the find commands lower priority. E.g. 'find -bla' > then becomes '/usr/bin/nice -n 19 find -bla'. Unless there's something under periodic that really needs normal priority, it's easier to modify /etc/crontab so that all periodic tasks run under nice. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"