Thanks Yong Huang. 'taskset' will fulfill my needs well too. Cameron was trying to fulfill what I wanted : a)stopping those annoying alerts b)if there's constantly other processes that takes up CPU, then renice will probably deprive this 'reniced' processes a lot of the CPU resource. I want to be able to control it manually using his script (or for Linux, someone else in the Net has cpulimit.c codes that also fulfill what I need) c)there's concern that if a novice were to do 'renice' of a "shared" server process, such as a Webserver or Oracle server and the server process turn out to get very little CPU allocation due to other processes need the CPU often, then I would rather to be able to control it manually (ie using stutter or cpulimit) than let the system decides it for me (ie using renice) just get to know taskset which will meet my needs for a, b & to an extent c as well. However, I'm also looking for similar solution for HP-UX and Cameron's method could port easily to HP-UX. Anyone know what's the equivalent for taskset in HP-UX? Sorry that this is a Redhat & not a HP-UX list. To mitigate the situation where a process needs to talk to another periodically, I thought of using Cameron's solution with very short intervals (0.1 to 0.2 secs) on HP-UX. For Linux, taskset is good On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi sunhux and Cameron, > > Sending SIGSTOP and SIGCONT signals to the process should work but be > careful with process-to-process coordination. For example, the software > could be written in a way that one process periodically talks to another, > and if it can't, it aborts the application to avoid data corruption. > > BTW, when there's no other process using CPU, why do you not allow this > renice'd process to use all? You just don't want to be bothered by the > alert? > > You can use taskset to set a process's CPU affinity. > > Yong Huang > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list