>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:30 AM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: Perl, Nice, and CPU Usage
>
>
>> 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?
You can use nice outside of Perl when you run the command to see what effect
it has. The big questions are: what else is running when you run this
report? Is this something that will run at 3:00 am in the morning versus
3:00 pm in the afternoon?
-- Brett
