Hi, On Wednesday 30 March 2005 19:07, Pupeno wrote: > Je Mardo Marto 29 2005 13:59, Volker Armin Hemmann skribis: > > On Monday 28 March 2005 09:51, Pupeno wrote: > > > PORTAGE_NICENESS is set to 19 on /etc/make.conf. > > > Any ideas ? > > > > yes, stop using 'niceness'. > > > > With 2.6 nice does not work anymore like it worked with prior releases. > > Processes that are niced to negative values might get a lot less CPu than > > they should, while positive values get a lot more CPU cycles than they > > should. > > Is this documented somewhere ? > Thanks.
yes, but emm, I do not have any links ;) The 'problem' is, that 2.6 favours 'nice' processes and penalises CPU-hungry or 'not nice' processes. This is why you should not renice X with 2.6. You may try google for 2.6 and nice and have a look or go directly to your favourite kernel mailing list archive. There were some discussions about that. -- [email protected] mailing list
