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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!38.8.16.2!psinntp!pubxfer1.news.psi.net!dan.emsphone.com!dan From: Dan Nelson <dan@dan.emsphone.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: EM, cpu, and nice Date: 6 Apr 1997 04:35:27 GMT Organization: Executive Marketing Services, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5i796f$5a8@client2.news.psi.net> References: <3345CDE8.5EB0@unixg.ubc.ca> Reply-To: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.67.51.101 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970309; i386 FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38526 Paul Reitsma <preitsma@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote: > My cpu or mothboard (Intel P133 and ASUS P/I-P55T2P4) gives off weird > EMI pulses when FreeBSD idles the cpu. Anything from a while(1) to > xmountains fixes this. > > Thus, my question: is there any way to make a process so that it gets > NO cpu time unless NO other processes want the cpu? The idprio command will run an 'idle-time' process, which is probably just what you want. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com