Re: intent to package loadwatch
--On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 9:47 am -0500 "Dale E. Martin"
<dmartin@clifton-labs.com> wrote:
> Hi. A couple of friends of mine wrote a simple utility called "loadwatch"
> that I'm going to package for debian. What it does is spawns another
> program as a child process, and only allows the child to run if the
> system's load is less than a certain setpoint that you set at run time.
> When the load goes above that setpoint, it sends a SIGSTOP to the child,
> and when the load drops below a separate threshold, it continues the
child.
>
> I have used this utility for things like rc5des and mp3 conversion, to
make
> these non-essential and cpu hogging activities have _zero_ impact on
> interactive and/or real work, unlike simply "nicing" a program, and it
> works quite well.
Hmmm...
sounds quite useful. But doesn't setting a CPU limit with rlimit and
friends do essentially the same job?
Jules
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