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Sam Grabham wrote: > Hi > > is there a way of running a bash script with a higher priority than normal? > > I have used "renice" a few times to help matters but would like to do > this without having to renice the task. If the task runs as root (or is started by root) you can just use "nice". > This is to ensure that DAT tape job extracts data before other task try > and use the data files, Sounds like you want a lock, or a check on the files completeness or even incron, not priority. Priority just ensures more CPU as I understand it, by changing the scheduling. Most tape restores will be I/O bound (unless you are binding a lot of tape decks together). Waiting on I/O is usually a good reason to kick a shell script out of core for a few clock cycles, so it might appear the script isn't running much, or is low priority, when you are just waiting for the tape drive. > This is a Oracle box which uses most of the servers resources. What resource do you think you need more of? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html