-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-03-15 at 05:03 -0400, Osamalamadingdong wrote: Please, remember to post to the list, not in private. ...
As kcryptd is not a child process of par2, it does not inherit its niceness value, I understand - but it is a real nuisance.
Can this situation be changed?
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. Consider that a user could slow down an important machine by running a batch of nice processes when more important tasks are running normally. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm9Db0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UwEACfZjMZ72udA3L5mEU9SJDShLFb Ll0An3NvzcM4EpNKis0aGk65tbSdttsg =5BEq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org