Throttling a process

[Francesco Cesarini]

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>Anyway, what I want is to let my process run in the background, when the load isn't too high. The VM doesn't offer this functionality (maybe it should?) but I am especially after a few processes that I don't want to disturb.
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Have you looked at process priorities? You could toggle between low and 
medium for a number of processes based on the load. Not as bad as 
suspend.. Actually, priorities might be all you need...

Francesco
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