Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 09 March 2008 20:24, Basil Chupin wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
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Programs use CPU until they've completed the computations they must do. It's up to the OS to aportion CPU resources to competing processes.
The only thing that reduces a given program's CPU consumption below 100% is the invocation of I/O operations that cannot be immediately satisfied. That, and sleeping...
So, is this why when I am watching TV and zypper kicks in I get a stuttering/jumping image? If so, I'm heaving zypper out the window.
I know nothing of zypper in particular, but the same would be true of any CPU-intensive application whose nice and / or ionice settings were not adjusted relative to those of more sensitive applications.
And why are you running zypper while watching TV??
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