Hi Derek, How do i go about doing this?? Should i use the 'nice' command for this?? If there is a hardware clash, can i get to know about this in any way?? Thanks Raghav Derek Fountain wrote:
It sounds like you have some form of hardware clash between your disk interface and your mouse hardware. You could increase the priority of the X server to sharpen up responses (Windows does this when it gets bogged down to keep the user interface responsive) but you shouldn't need to.
Even i have the same problem running SuSe 6.2 on a Intel P III 450 Mhz with 256 Mb Ram. The m/c (especially the mouse cursor) seems to momentarily hang a few seconds after running a system command such as tar, cp, or a linking process. It is sometimes very irritating!! I never had this problem in SuSe 5.3 that too on a P II 300 MHz with 128 Mb Ram. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Raghav
Adi Gadwale wrote:
Issue: How does one change the priorities for a program for memory/cpu resource allocation?
Example: Sometimes when swap is being committed to disk or a resource intensive process takes place in the background, my entire gui gets sluggish. The mouse does not move/staggers around etc. This should not happen! The mouse should get the first priority for 3 reasons (a)It does not take much in resources (b)What if I am trying to move my mouse to kill the offending process? To click on a cancel button? If my mouse is frozen when the process is executing, the whole purpose of a cancel button is defeated! (c) What if I am playing xboing? Background processes would destroy the smooth paddle movement!!!
In BeOS, multimedia bandwith is far greater the ui bandwidth; you can play six different mp3 at the same time and your mouse will slow down to a crawl but all six mp3s will play beautifully. I am trying to achieve the opposite of this!!
This seems like it should be intuitive and default on linux. I am sure it is not that my computer is slow; it's an 850 athlon with 256Mb RAM and runs like a champ!
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