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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Midgley wrote: > > I know little of these things, but is this what renice is for? It is possibly the kind of thing renice is for. Since many systems only have 1 or 2 runnable processes at any one time, tweaking the user adjustable part of the priority of these processes may not make a huge difference. I think just find out what is causing it, and decide if you want it, and if you do figure out why it is using so much resource, and what type of resource. If it is CPU bound and competing with other user runnable processes then there may be scope for nicing the task, but my guess is the issue is more likely to be disk activity related, or something generating interrupts or otherwise competing for another type of resources, and slowing the task down by allocating it less CPU may just make that resource contention last longer. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCtXf+GFXfHI9FVgYRAk+rAKCMZN49BXnyo9WoJjNCP4JWailJFACg1oVG ICn6I4ryZd0PduZCYsPbSNs= =O4Yq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html