On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:18 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: > during > the day I run > "nice emerge -uDNav world" usually when reading email. CPU load maxes > out at around > 50%.
this is strange - CPU should still go to 100% (if it would without the nice command that is). Nice only affects which processes get the cpu time first - it doesn't apply a "maximum cpu limit" to a process, so if you have only one process running, even niced to 19, it can still use 100% cpu... It would be nice if there was a nice command for making disk access nice so I could nicely say `nice emerge -uD world` and it wouldn't take a whole lot of disk time away from my nice browsing, music playing, etc... eh... -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Unix will self-destruct in five seconds... 4... 3... 2... 1... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
