Thanks lads! recompiled the kernel with the speed patches and its working a LOT faster now. im getting a load average of 7-9 and its more responsive then it was with a load of 4.5 on the old build. Thanks for the info!
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 08:32, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2003 15:34, Lotas T Smartman wrote: > > trying not to sound like a newbie (being using linux for quite some > > time) but i have never used this niceness thingy. so, i know a bit about > > priority stuff. 1 is heighest? or is it 10? do i do a nice -(lowest > > number here) setiathome, yea? actually, found out. ill try that now. > > right just done it and i cant really see a major improvment, but typing > > is slightly faster, and my system monitor looks different (the one in > > gnome. its now all blue, not 80% blue, 20% purple like when it was when > > running seti @ full wack. though its getting there now. anyway, ill try > > kernel 2.6. been meaning to for a while now. > > Thanks for the tips! > > -20 is the highest priority > +19 is the lowest priority > > Jason > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Lotas T Smartman, MCP www.lotas-smartman.net www.the-hairy-one.com www.lsn-blog.tk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
