Rafal 'Raf256' Maj wrote:
> I'm using povray on linux (fedore core 2 - next version of red hat 9 
> basicly) and have some problems with renice.
> 
> I renice'd pov's process to 19 (with is maximum level), but still - other 
> programs are realy slowed down by povray (I had to gave renice -10 to them 
> to have them working smoothly).
> 
> I'm working in X windows.
> 
> What can cause such problems?

Sometime, it's due to the hardware design : POV is very MPU intensive 
and could cause many interrupts that could slow down all processes 
(context switch, ...)

Bye

Lolo

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