System load notification

Henry Hallam henry at pericynthion.org
Thu Apr 17 11:21:42 EDT 2014


On Apr 17, 2014 8:13 AM, "Jimmy Thrasibule" <jimmy.thrasibule at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > 'batch' is supposed to do this, though I haven't used it.
>
> What do you mean by "batch"?

It's a core UNIX utility, associated with 'at'/'atd'.  Try 'man batch'.
Its purpose is to start a job when system load is low, but I don't think it
will pause the lower-priority job when load increases again.

Henry
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