From: "Kenneth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> When I run [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("nice" setting 19) the Gnome system monitor
> reports cpu usage at a 100% flatline without my running any other
> progs but Gnome and system monitor. This doesn't sound very "nice"
> to me - although it does appear that I can still run multiple major
> applications with no apparrent problems.
>
> Is this constant 100% cpu usage something I need to be
> concerned about?
That is exactly what nice 19 means, Kenneth. Whenever the CPU is not
idle this application is scheduled to run. If the machine is idle then
nothing else runs. (Of course, your CPI activity monitor will show that
it is taking some of the CPU since it runs at a higher priority.)
If ANY higher priority tasks are on the OS's ready queue, programs
that are ready to run rather than waiting on IO or a timer timeout,
these tasks will get scheduled in preference to the nice 19 task with
a minor creeb. I understand that there is a "fairness" factor calculated
into the Linux kernel that allows even a nice 19 surrounded by a hoard
of higher priority tasks a wee bit of time to run every now and then.
{^_^}
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