Re: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Herb Martin wrote: > I tried the naive approach of running copy of cmd.exe to get "start > /belownormal" but that didn't work and isn't realy what I want anyway. > It would be better to have a way to just start a CygWin job in reduced > priority. > > I am betting this is just

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Herb: > > It would be better to have a way to just start a CygWin job > in reduced > > priority. > > > > I am betting this is just ignorance on my part -- there is > a command > > right? > > Yes, and a very nice one... :-) See "man nice"

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> You can also use renice to re-prioritize a running process Cool. Thanks. > remember, lower numbers mean higher priority. Thank you -- got that from man/help/info etc. Opposite to Win32 but that's ok since it is documented. It was driving me crazy to have to go find the PID and use TaskMan

Re: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread J. David Boyd
"Herb Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You can also use renice to re-prioritize a running process > I have no renice. Did you compile this yourself? Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentat

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> "Herb Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> You can also use renice to re-prioritize a running process > > > > I have no renice. Did you compile this yourself? > > Dave The quoting was screwed up (somewhere along the line) and I am not the original poster but was thanking him. I have n

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> "Herb Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> You can also use renice to re-prioritize a running process > > > > I have no renice. Did you compile this yourself? > > Dave The quoting was screwed up (somewhere along the line) and I am not the original poster but was thanking him. I have n

Re: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
> >> You can also use renice to re-prioritize a running process > > > > I have no renice. Did you compile this yourself? POSIX requires renice, but so far, no one has contributed a renice to coreutils. If I can ever get my employer to sign my copyright disclaimer, that is one of the projects o

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> > I have no renice. Did you compile this yourself? > > POSIX requires renice, but so far, no one has contributed a > renice to coreutils. If I can ever get my employer to sign > my copyright disclaimer, that is one of the projects on my > todo list. Meanwhile, util-linux > (http://freshmea