Re-assigning the bug task to boinc: it's related to CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED: each user gets the same amout of CPU slices/cycles and therein the niceness is applied. Therefore, the boinc user gets half of the CPU. This can be adjusted using the following command, which will give "2" cpu_share units to the boinc user (the default is 1024 and root gets 2048). Caution: assigning 1 there locked my (single core) system! $ echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/kernel/uids/`id -u boinc`/cpu_share
I will provide a patch for the boinc-client init script. I've posted about this to http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/19/63, but without a reply until now. ** Changed in: boinc (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: linux => boinc Assignee: Ubuntu Kernel Team (ubuntu-kernel-team) => (unassigned) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- 2.6.24-2: Regression with idle cpu cycle handling https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177713 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
