Gordon Ross skrev:
I've built several OpenSuSE 10.x machines, and on all of them, I've had the "fun" of finding that at startup/login, the ZDM stuff just eats CPU & disc. On "quiet" PCs, the CPU fan has to work overtime just to support the stuff, and on laptops, ZMD just eats disc I/O.
For a while, I just switched off ZMD. Then I decided to be a bit cleverer. I altered the init script that starts zmd, and changed the start command line to be "/usr/bin/nice -n 19 ${ZMD_BIN} $ZMD_OPTIONS"
Viola ! My quiet PC is now quiet, and my laptop now runs well at start up.
Yes, ZMD takes a lot longer to sort itself out, but it no longer affects me, and that makes me happy.
All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping long to install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come back YaST, all is forgiven !)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but of all 10.2 setups I've made, the zmd process always runs at nice level 19 "out of the box". I've checked in on about 50 installations now, and every one runs at 19, no edits made... Anders.