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In article <1992Oct8.185727.10691@cs.wayne.edu>, mikeg@rocdec.roc.wayne.edu (Michael George) writes:
|> Anyone know how to change the PRIORITY of a UNIX PROCESS that was
|> started from within MUMPS or MSQL? Having a problem with PROCESSES
|> running deathly slow. Somehow I need to give these processes more higher
|> priority.
|>  
|> mikeg@woodie.roc.wayne.edu
|>  

You want to prioritise Unix processes ? >:-> In most versions of
Unix that I know of you don't get a lot of control over normal
processes. If the machine is running slow there is a good chance
it will be something to do with the memory in the machine. If
there is not enough memory the OS will spend a lot time swapping
pages of memory in and out, and this can have a fairly disasterous
effect on performance. Speak to your system administrator about it.

If the processes are accessing data on remote disks then this could
also be a problem due to network traffic.

I don't think the nice command would help, but you could try it.

Alan.

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awright@gssec.bt.co.uk (Alan Wright)
BT, Software Engineering Centre, Glasgow, UK
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