On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 02:29:44PM -0500, Rob Townley wrote:

> Have you tried nice?  On a full PC platform running Fedora 13 our
> gateway tinc node does much much better with nice.  Even though there
> were plenty of unused CPU cycles,  changing /etc/init.d/tincd by
> prepending 'nice -n 20' to tincd --net=YourNetName
> made performance much more consistent.  Otherwise, ping times would
> range from 2milliseconds to 4000milliseconds.

Note that nice -n 20 actually lowers the priority. However, the kernel does
behave differently when you nice a process, it could be that tinc does receive
some kind of benefit from this.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <[email protected]>

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