After working on this problem much of the afternoon, (and after
posting the problem report) someone here guessed what to do.
The solution is:
batch script1
Where script 1 contains
/usr/bin/nice -19 script2
[note it does not work if you replace /usr/bin/nice with nice]
[also note batch /usr/bin/nice -19 script does not work either, why?]
Script 2 just starts the jobs you wish to run ... weird huh.
Sorry for bothering all of you.
Don
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We have users which wish to "batch" program to run when system load
permits. They also want to scavange unused CPU cycles only (nice -19).
How can one start jobs (using batch or at) so that their nice level
is set to 19?
We have read the nice/batch/at man pages, and cannot get this to work
properly.
Help.
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