Re: OT: nice'ing jobs

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:10:20PM -0500, Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'd like to draw on the general > computing expertise of this group. > > Where I work, we have a unix server with 4 CPU's. I gather this is a proprietary Unix, not GNU/Linux?

Re: OT: nice'ing jobs

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:10:20PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > However, if one more CPU-intensive job were > added by user1, all jobs would be slowed proportionately. Have you tested that this actually happens? Empirical data is harder to argue with than theory. > My argument > is that nice'ing