Well if you're fortunate enough to be running this on a
Unix system then you can re-schedule the priority of a process by being '
nice' to the process. If you have permissions you can use the
renice command (
man renice(8)) which should lower it's CPU usage significantly (assuming you give it a positive value). This isn't part of perl's functionality, so you'll probably have to run the command through
system() or something of that ilk, as I don't think there's a
CPAN module for it (now would be a good time to write one though ;o)
HTH
broquaint