I did this: In my login.conf file (assuming that all you have to do is change whatever you don't want to be the default):
nice:\ :priority=5: In the user entry I put 'nice' in field 5. When I rebuilt the login.conf db, nothing seems to have changed for th user... A 'top' still shows his processes (old and new) with a nice of 0. Is there something else I'm missing? -----Original Message----- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:57 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mysql Hogging all system resources In the last episode (Apr 13), Don O'Neil said: > Nevermind on the "badly formatted number"... I specified the full path > /usr/bin/nice and it worked ok this time :-) > > However, I still want to know if there is a way to specify a nice > level for an entire users processes. If you create a login class in /etc/login.conf and set the priority capability, then assign a user to that class in /etc/master.passwd (the class field is the 5th one, it's usually empty), then their priority (aka niceness) should get set then they log in. Remember to use the 'vipw' command to edit the passwd file, and to run 'cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf' to rebuild login.conf.db. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]