On Monday 17 December 2007 13:44:20 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)
What's windows got to do with it. If you have an application that requires lots of resources but has a very low priority, what's wrong with saying to the kernel "only run this when nothing else is running"? I think you're confusing "nice" with applications' getting priority when they're in the foreground (which is the windows strategy), but that's the other way around Fortunately there is a way of doing it - with ionice you can set IO scheduling priority idle, and since it's the IO that kills you, it should be good enough Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
