Carlos E. R. wrote:
renice it to 19.
Yes, I can do that by hand, but my question is more general: could not the kcryptd process inherit the niceness of the calling process?
And that hack requires being root.
Ie, what's the use of having a user process running "very nice", if the system processes it calls run at high priority? The purpose of "nice" is defeated.
Well, not entirely. When you give your process a lower priority it will be given less resources - unless there is plenty of them. If your process doesn't run, I'm sure kcrypt won't be either. Maybe try renicing your process to -19 and see what happens then.
Consider that a user could slow down an important machine by running a batch of nice processes when more important tasks are running normally.
They're all users on the same machine, so apart from priority they all have the same access to its resources. When the machine is more loaded, yes, it'll process each job slower, but that's life. Without system resource limitations (see /etc/security/limits.conf), any user can bring the system down, more or less. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.4°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org