Bob Proulx wrote: > I was sure I have seen a generic script program that would cycle > another program on and off with sigstop/sigcont just as you are asking > for as a programmable load controller. But it slips my mind at the > moment.
Here is the one I was thinking of: http://freshmeat.net/projects/loadwatch/ http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/loadwatch With this you can run: loadwatch -d 10 -h 1.25 -l 0.25 -- rsync -a /foo /bar Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils