Warp wrote:
>   Also in my experience nice level 4 is completely enough to keep a heavy
> process, well, nice. 

I think that's probably true of CPU-bound processes. I've had trouble 
getting I/O bound processes to play well with others (under both XP and 
Linux) because the nice value doesn't affect them. Plus, the "ionice" 
bit seems pretty primitve, and the ionice processes don't run unless you 
completely stop using the disk for several seconds, it seems.

Unfortunately, most of my actual paying work is I/O bound, not CPU bound.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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