Simple scripts for automatically starting commands as either SCHED_BATCH, SCHED_ISO or SCHED_IDLEPRIO. Put toolsched.i, toolsched.b and toolsched.d in your PATH Then make a symbolic link with the name of the command highest in your PATH you want to run as SCHED_BATCH to the relevant toolsched script. eg: cp toolsched.* /usr/bin ln -s /usr/bin/toolsched.d ~/bin/make Provided ~/bin/make is earlier in your PATH this will work. 'make' will then always start as SCHED_IDLEPRIO if it can. Toolsched.d also detects if SCHED_IDLEPRIO is not supported and will drop it to a SCHED_BATCH policy if it can instead. The toolsched script can only ever be run as a symbolic link. Multiple copies of toolsched in your PATH will fail. Con