Package: approx Version: 4.5-1 Severity: wishlist Forwarding this feature request filed against Ubuntu from Michael Sebastian
https://launchpad.net/bugs/106944 Quoting from the original bug report (filed in 2007) > The weekly gc_approx cron job can lead to heavy system load. There is > no good reason for this background process to have equal priority with > user processes. I was watching a high resolution HDTV show. When the > cron job started mythtv could not get enough processor time to decode > the video. First there were many glitches and then mythtv locked up. > I was able to recreate the problem by running the cron job from the > command line while watching TV. After I changed the cron job to run > gc_approx as nice -19 mythtv worked much better. There were still a > few video glitches but things were much better. I just checked and confirmed that the package gc does still run unniced. Also consider using ionice if available, as it will specifically avoid overloading the IO subsystem -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers natty-updates APT policy: (500, 'natty-updates'), (500, 'natty-security'), (500, 'natty') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages approx depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu1ubuntu4 add and remove users and groups ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii curl 7.21.2-4ubuntu1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or ii debconf [debconf-2.0 1.5.36ubuntu3 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.12.1-0ubuntu13 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libpcre3 8.02-1.1build1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii openbsd-inetd [inet- 0.20080125-6ubuntu1 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver ii update-inetd 4.38 inetd configuration file updater approx recommends no packages. Versions of packages approx suggests: pn libconfig-model-approx-perl <none> (no description available) -- Configuration Files: /etc/approx/approx.conf changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
