10. Januar 2003 04:48 Dan Jacobson wrote: > J> Setting nice helped me for a while...until cache growed above > J> 100MB. If htdig and especially htmerge didn't eat so much memory, > J> mere CPU usage won't be a problem. > > As far as nice, I don't remember it making a difference. > > Wait a second, with kernel 2.4.19 the problem seems ameliorated. > At least keystroke repeat isn't interfered with.
I don't want to do flamewar about this, but when _any_ program requests all physical RAM and is doing intensive computation on it, kernel (regardless of its version) has to pull other programs to swap space. This would certainly interfere with keystroke processing in them. Of course, it depends of how much RAM you have, how fast CPU, etc.... On my old pentium with 48 megs of ram (everyone still uses such machines here) running htdig rendered machine nearly unusable. Juraj
