Re: Just how efficent is using system() ?

You can make your Perl script use less resources (CPU) by calling it with nice:

nice -n 19 perl myscript.pl args...

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Re: Re: Just how efficent is using system() ? by TomDLux (Vicar) on Jul 03, 2003 at 17:20 UTC
How does running something more slowly make it run faster? `nice` gives your procecss a low priority, so that it obtains CPU time at a slower rate, so long as higher priority tasks are available to run. -- `TTTATCGGTCGTTATATAGATGTTTGCA`	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Just how efficent is using system() ? by fglock (Vicar) on Jul 03, 2003 at 17:29 UTC
That's right. I didn't mean it would run faster. I said it would use less resources.	[reply]