Re: [tlug] Giving a program priority briefly

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Darren Cook wrote:

> Thanks for the idea; I'll give it a try (perhaps in conjunction with the
> nice -n -20).

Well, the point is, since using the time(1) command you're getting the
kernel's accounting of time slices given to that application, it doesn't
matter *how* busy your system is, so long as it's the CPU usage you're
trying to bencmark. It should work as well with nice +20, and if you're
running another one in parallel at a different nice level as well.

cjs
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