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Re: nicing idl at startup from idlwave [message #52290 is a reply to message #52143]

Mon, 22 January 2007 11:15

Christopher Thom
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Registered: October 2006

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Quoth JD Smith:

> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:00:30 -0600, Christopher Thom wrote:
>
>> Hi gang,
>>
>> A quick question -- does anyone know how to start idl from idlwave with a
>> lower process priority? I tried setting idlwave-shell-explicit-file-name
>> to something like "nice -5 idl" without any success. Looks like this needs
>> to be the filename only, I presume since idl is started without recourse
>> to the shell.
>
> Probably the easiest is to make a shell script "niceidl" and reference
> that directly in shell-explicit-filename. renice also could do the
> trick post-facto, and a little elisp could make it much easier to use.
> Stick this in your .emacs:

duh. shell script. always miss the simple and obvious solutions. thanks
both. I just tried it and it works fine...will keep an eye out for
unexpected side-effects of have a shell layer in there.

btw -- i should have been a little more explicit: "nice -5" is a
somewhat historical usage, which lowers the priority (i.e. = nice -n +5
idl). at least, on my linux/mac machines.

cheers
chris

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		Re: nicing idl at startup from idlwave By: JD Smith on Mon, 22 January 2007 09:22
		Re: nicing idl at startup from idlwave By: Brian Larsen on Mon, 22 January 2007 08:08
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