Re: process in background

2009-04-23 Thread green
Matyas Sustik wrote at 2009-04-22 23:13 -0500: > I tried using nice -n 19 but the result is noticably slower execution of the > encoding job even when there is nothing else going on. (About 30-50& slower.) > > Is there some other process management tool that could help achieve the goal? You may

Re: process in background

2009-04-23 Thread Matyas Sustik
Some more data as suggested. I run without nice, with nice -n 5 and nice -n 10, each version twice: Without nice: real0m10.662s user0m9.513s sys 0m3.448s real0m10.121s user0m7.712s sys 0m2.444s CPU% according to top reached 118%. nice -n 5: real0m22.141s user0m

Re: process in background

2009-04-23 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/23 Matyas Sustik : > Dear Forum, > > I am running a video encoding process for which I would like to use all the > CPU resources which would otherwise be idle.  I do not want this job to get > in the way of any other processes (interactive or something like mythbackend). > > I tried using ni

process in background

2009-04-22 Thread Matyas Sustik
Dear Forum, I am running a video encoding process for which I would like to use all the CPU resources which would otherwise be idle. I do not want this job to get in the way of any other processes (interactive or something like mythbackend). I tried using nice -n 19 but the result is noticably s

Re: starting process in background

2000-03-03 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth aphro, > whats the best way? im running a icecast server and wanna set it to start > on boot.. > > what i got goin is.. > > su icecast -c /usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast >/dev/null & Have you tried nohup? I tend to find that it works pretty well, and creates a handy nohup.out file, contai

Re: starting process in background

2000-03-03 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 03:53:45PM -0800, aphro wrote: > whats the best way? im running a icecast server and wanna set it to start > on boot.. > > what i got goin is.. > > su icecast -c /usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast >/dev/null & > > BUT the problem is it segfaults when i have the & ..without t

Re: starting process in background

2000-03-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 03:53:45PM -0800, aphro wrote: > whats the best way? im running a icecast server and wanna set it to start > on boot.. > > what i got goin is.. > > su icecast -c /usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast >/dev/null & > > BUT the problem is it segfaults when i have the & ..without t

starting process in background

2000-03-03 Thread aphro
whats the best way? im running a icecast server and wanna set it to start on boot.. what i got goin is.. su icecast -c /usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast >/dev/null & BUT the problem is it segfaults when i have the & ..without the & its fine..i thought of doing screen but i cant figure out how to a