On Tuesday 29 August 2006 07:27, Basil Chupin wrote:
stephan beal wrote:
That will run it at a lower priority and your videos are less likely to skip. i use this all the time when copying using scp, because scp takes up so much CPU and causes videos to pause/skip.
Ouch, Stephen, sorry about not replying to you earlier (I had overlooked your message unitl now).
Many thanks for this suggestion. I can assume that this will also "increase" any access another computer has to the DSL so that it has more of the broadband allocated to it for, say, browsing while smart is in action?
That i can't answer. The 'nice'ness of a process determines how 'nice' it is when it comes to CPU sharing. A higher nice value == nicer when it comes to sharing. IIRC the values run between -19 (not nice at all) to 19 (very nice). By sharing CPU time more readily, one can assume that other behaviours which the CPU drives are also shared more readily, e.g. network bandwidth. In theory, since your nice'd app has less CPU time, it's getting less time on the network (to the order of milliseconds). AFAIK, nice does not *directly* affect any resources other than the CPU time, though. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts