[Info-vax] nice for VMS

[Fred Zwarts]

"David J Dachtera" <djesys.no at spam.comcast.net> wrote in message news:49DD47BA.A89CB194 at spam.comcast.net...
> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> 
>> In article <49db75b0$1 at news.post.ch>, Martin Krischik <krischik at users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > May colleges are slightly upset because my compiles eats up to much CPU.
>> > On unix I would just "nice -5" them and problem solved.
>> >
>> > My guess is that "SET Process /SCHEDULING_CLASS" could help - but if so:
>> > which scheduling class should I use?
>> 
>>    What's wrong with "set process/priority=1"?
> 
> Priority zero is better because then it just scavenges CPU time.

Are priority 0 processes still competing with the NULL process,
or do I carry to much of the VMS history with me?
(I know the NULL process is no longer visible in newer VMS versions.)