Martin McCormick wrote on 6/24/20 11:19 AM: > > Right now, uptime looks like: > > 11:48:07 up 26 days, 23:10, 7 users, load average: 16.15, 15.60, 10.65 > > That's pretty loaded so ideally, one could start the > looping script and it would fire up processes until things got > really busy and then not allow any more new procs to start until > some have stopped so cron and other system utilities don't stop > running which is what happens when systems get too busy. > > Thanks for any constructive suggestions. >
My general approach is to use sem to create N-1 parallel jobs, where N is the number of CPUs on the machine. Not /exactly/ what you're asking for, but something along those lines would probably help the situation. At least, it works for me :-) Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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