> Philippe Debar schrieb:
> I don't know about Java (there might be components of the Java system 
> wrongly running with increased priority) but apart from that this would 
> be extremely unusual.  Unless you are running out of memory of course - 
> since there is nothing like priority for swapping exceeding available 
> memory will always slow down the whole system.  Also note Gimp uses its 
> own 'virtual memory' system so you should make sure its settings are 
> appropriate.


It's at least the combination of swap (Eclipse is very memory-hungry and 
nearly eats up all of my 768Mo by itself), and 100% CPU usage (Pov).

But even then, I already ran into these conditions without getting such 
a slowdown. Eclipse/Java must be doing something, but I will not spend 
any more time trying to guess what. I'll consider this a major defect 
and will make my choice among the other editors.


> You can easily test if a slowdown you experience during a POV-Ray render 
> is due to POV-Ray 'eating up' CPU time - run it with lowest priority 
> ('nice -19 povray' instead of 'povray') and see if this changes 
> anything.  If not a hypothetical pause function in POV-Ray would not 
> help either.


Thanks for the tip.


//Philippe

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