> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Peterson
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:59 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Perl, Nice, and CPU Usage
>
> Because this is on a test box there is nothing else running at the time.
> The intention is to have it be user requested through a web browser. But
> right now I'm just running it from the command line. Only one person would
> run it at a time and only about once a week or so. I just want to make
> sure that when it does go on a production box that it will let other
> processes go in front of it and won't crash the server or anything.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett McCoy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:56 AM
> To: 'John Peterson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Perl, Nice, and CPU Usage
>
> >-----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
