On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 06:44 -0600, M Harris wrote: > On Monday 17 December 2007 12:22, Sloan wrote: > > It would be great if the beagle devs could take a page from > > the boinc playbook, and only use CPU when it is not being used by other > > apps. > You mean like the windoze devs...? > > cpu timeslice should *never* be in the hands of app developers. The kernel > schedules the cpu, and timeslice.... not app devs. (windoze never mind) > > However, a sysadmin can adjust the cpu timeslice for beagle, or any other > cpu intensive app, so that they crawl along happily in the background. The > apps under such control take longer to complete of course... but in the case > of massive indexing like beagle --who cares?
Beagle already does nice itself and employ strategies for reducing work when the CPU is not idle. However I/O is a problem and non-root processes can't change their own I/O priority iirc. -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
