Re: Preventing query from hogging server

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:07:39PM -0600, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> I've tried `nice psql` in the past and I don't think that had much impact,
> but I haven't tried it on this query.

On linux, nice will only help if the query is CPU-bound. On FreeBSD,
nice affects I/O scheduling, as well as CPU, so it's a more effective
means of limiting the impact of large queries. I don't know how other
OS's handle this.
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