background process limit?

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 08:11:59PM +0100, Hugo (6s-gaming.com) wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Is there a way to limit background processes ? I need to separate these
> from foreground processes, but can't find a way to. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Dear Hugo,

As an addition to what others already have sad: you migth wanna check
out the commands nice and idprio. These can give you background
processes less weigth.

-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/