> Hi:
>
> I'm working on Sun Solaris and I've written a Perl program that uses DBI
> to access two Informix databases to generate a report. There are
> approximately 150,000 records it must proccess to generate the report.
> Everything seems to work perfectly and the program runs for approximately
> 12 seconds and generates the appropriate results.
>
> If I do an IOSTAT command from another window while running the Perl
> program, I see that Idle CPU time drops down to 0%. This is on a test box
> and I'm usually the only one on it, so Idle CPU time prior to running is
> at 100%. The CPU idle time drops to 0% for approximately 12 seconds, while
> the report is running.
>
> My question: Is this normal? If I use a Nice command in my Perl program
> and set my priority at a higher number will this be ok to run on a
> production server? I don't know much about this stuff yet but my reasoning
> says, "of course it would use 100% of the resources to get the job done if
> that's what it takes. As long as it lets other processes go in front of
> it, everything should be ok". Is my reasoning correct?
>
> John Peterson
> Gentner Communications Corporation
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