On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 09:04 +0100, Matt Judge wrote:
> (re)nice'ing a program therefore makes a program run smoother, not faster.

Sort of misleading.  For a highly CPU-bound process, renicing a program
will make it run faster, as it gets a better share of the CPU's valuable
time.  And in some cases (i.e. game framerate, if a game was for some
reason CPU-bound), faster in fact equals smoother.


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