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>>I'm sorry, but nice never looked "nice" to me.
>>Have you ever tried to "nice" apache server which spawns 500 
>>processes/threads on a loaded machine?
>>With nice you _can't_ impose limits or priority on the whole "apache".
>>The more apaches you have the more useless their priorites and nices are...
>> 
>>
> 
> 
> Yes but interactive admin processes will still get a large bonus
> relative to the apache processes so you can still log in and kill the
> apache storm off even with very large loads.

And how do you plan to manage it: to log in every time when apache works 
too much and kill processes? The managabiliy of such solutions sucks..

Kirill