Hi! I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's supposed to run a dnet-client.
Then I've got a laptop (64bit Celeron, single core) on which I play those video files from my server over NFS. So far, so good. My problem is: Neither of them can handle recording/playing video while there is any background activity. That means I have to stop the dnet-daemon and suspend any emerges on my laptop. If I don't, both mencoder and mplayer loose sync of audio and video and drops frames. Apparently a nice-setting of 19 is not enough to keep daemons and similar stuff as strict idle activity. It still gets a fair amount of cpu-time. Of course, I could give mencoder/mplayer real-time priority (nice -n 20) but that would need them to run in super-user mode which should be unnecessary for such a simple task. Long story short, can I somehow tweak the scheduler to be more aggressive when it comes to high nice-levels? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp
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