Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] live music with linux
From: Chris Pickett (chris.pickett_AT_mail.mcgill.ca)
Date: Wed Jul 28 2004 - 23:05:15 EEST
Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Chris Pickett hat gesagt: // Chris Pickett wrote:
>
>>I need an "i'm-going-away-from-my-computer-so-do-annoying-things"
>>script, or some kind of scheduler based on cpu usage.
>
>
> For example you could run these commands when logging off. A very cool
> idea I just had is this: You could add a script to your xscreensaver
> conf. Just add it to ~/.xscreensaver in the "programs" section. You
> could for example put a call to anacron there. Ah, the wonders of
> Linux configurability. ;)
Cool! How do I kill or suspend things when I come back? Just grep ps
for PID's? I suppose nice is meant to handle these things, but it
doesn't seem to work very well for I/O and memory.
Chris
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