increasing the priority of a process

[Umapathy S]

hi all
I am running hpux10.2. I started a process that puts some data to a Informix database as a background one. But I need to run it fast now and finish. The process started with priority 138 and nice 20. I reniced the value to 0 and is still to get the higher priorities. I made the process foreground also.

Is there any other way to increase the priority of the process

thanks in advance

cheers
Umapathy

[Deepak Extross]

Well, if setting the nice value to 0 isn't enough, maybe you should consider stopping / suspending other CPU-intensive processes till your program finishes.
'top' will give you a list of active processes that could be hogging the CPU.

[Umapathy S]

sorry for posting it twice.

I find the process is not being scheduled for execution at all. There are around 30 users connected to the machine and I want them to work also, but I want my process to be scheduled atleast. Any other ways