Re: Change query priority

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 07:12:51PM +0400, Eugeny Balakhonov wrote:
>
> I want to change priority for database queries of this background program to
> "low" and change priority for web site database queries to "high".

I don't know how effective this would be, but you could wrap the
system call setpriority() in a user-defined function if your
platform supports it.  This would set the "nice" value of the
backend process, which might serve as a crude prioritization
mechanism.

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Michael Fuhr
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