On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:26:56 +0200, Nicolas Calimet wrote:

>> I still get some jerkiness in the
>> graphics in the game, but it's not as pronounced.
> 
> 	If you give the lowest priority to your POV-Ray job (+20), you should
> get nearly the same effect as suspending it.  But not quite, as it would
> still get maybe 1-2% of the resources on average.

Sounds about right.  Doesn't the niceness level adjust the timeslicing
used, or is that controlled by something else?

> 	AFAIK only the OS - say the user on top of it - can do that in a Unix
> 	environment.

That's my understanding as well - and even then, I think it depends on
which part of the OS we're talking about as well.  I have seen user
processes run away with a Linux kernel to the point the machines becomes
nonresponsive on the network (granted, that's probably still too far away
from the kernel, since it's services not responding that would be the
indicator of this behaviour.)

Jim

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