> I've noticed similar effects here. Kernel 2.4.20, but only 1 disk. > If something pushes the disk hard then most thigns, including xmms > (which is streaming, not using the disk), becomes unresponsive until > the heavy disk usage subsides. (I had figured old hardware had > something to do with it, but mabye 2.6 will improve this, as someone > else suggested) > > | When renicing the copying processes it works ok, but I am not sure > | if that is the solution. And if that is, how would I do this > | efficiently. Looking a top and renicing by hand is a bit annoying to > | me ;-) > > Run the command with 'nice' in the first place. Eg : > > $ nice -n 19 cp foo bar > Derrick,
alright I will fallback to that if I have to copy large amounts of data, but usually I am using konqueror to copy files ... Is there anyway, but a script, to mass renice process with some shared characteristics like the command? I mean something like killall, but of course it shouldn't kill but renice ;-) Cheers, Mariano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
