Re: OT: to be "nice", or not...

2003-08-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > Scenario: > I launch a task at normal priority (nice-ness 0) > When this task has finished I wish to be paged... > > In other words; > Question: Can I have one task be postponed while another one >is still executing?

RE: OT: to be "nice", or not...

2003-08-12 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Igor Pechtchanski > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: --8<-- > > *The point* is beeing able to launch the time/cpu-consuming > task and then > > "append" the paging later. > > > > The obvious is to concat

OT: to be "nice", or not...

2003-08-07 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
Scenario: I launch a task at normal priority (nice-ness 0) When this task has finished I wish to be paged... In other words; Question: Can I have one task be postponed while another one is still executing? Is this possible? e.g. a command sequence that might take a long time:

RE: OT: to be "nice", or not...

2003-08-07 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Jon LaBadie > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:42:04PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen > (garbage mail) wrote: --8<-- > > *The point* is beeing able to launch the time/cpu-consuming > > task and then "append" the paging later. > > > > The o

Re: OT: to be "nice", or not...

2003-08-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:42:04PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > Scenario: > I launch a task at normal priority (nice-ness 0) > When this task has finished I wish to be paged... > > In other words; > Question: Can I have one task be postponed while another one >