On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:41:46AM +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > Am 24.05.2005 um 03:33 schrieb Willie Gnarlson:
> > Can someone suggest a solution for having an often out of control > > search.cgi script run at a certain nice setting? > The best solution is probably to fix the CGI itself ;-) I tend to agree with you, but in this case it is not my CGI. :-( > > I've looked into auto nice daemon (and) and I don't think that's the > > right tool for the job. It would have to poll every few seconds, > > as far as I can tell. It's a perl CGI, but I'm unable to uncover > > anything in the perldocs for having a script renice itself. > The nice() function is in the POSIX module. You use it like this: > use POSIX (); > POSIX::nice(19); > See "man POSIX" and "man 2 nice" for details. That is what I was looking for! Many, many thanks, Dennis. Thank you. -- Willie Gnarlson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]