At 14:38 1/08/00 +1000, Chris Bitmead wrote:
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>Is this the sort of problem that nice() might solve, or not?
>
Doesn't seem to; the problem is the IO, I think. Besides, it's a bad idea
to change priorities on backend processes (which is where most of the work
is done).
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