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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org