On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:23:20 +0200, Nicolas Calimet wrote:

>> Doesn't the niceness level adjust the timeslicing
>> used, or is that controlled by something else?
> 
> 	Best is to ask Google  :-)
> 
> http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=101760&rl=1

<G>  Or I could peruse the kernel source, at that. :-)

>> I have seen user
>> processes run away with a Linux kernel to the point the machines becomes
>> nonresponsive on the network
> 
> 	I've faced litterally frozen desktops mostly when an user app started to
> swap like hell because of too high a memory demand.

Yep, I see that on occasion here as well - usually something like
beagled-helper most recently - I need to file a bug on that, but I swap so
infrequently that I thought the monitor applet was broken until that thing
started burning memory up.

Jim

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