>>> On 07 March 2007 at 09:54, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Verner Kjærsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Onsdag 07 marts 2007 10:44 skrev Gordon Ross:
>> I've built several OpenSuSE 10.x machines, and on all of them, I've had
>> the "fun" of finding that at startup/login, the ZDM stuff just eats CPU
>> & disc. On "quiet" PCs, the CPU fan has to work overtime just to support
>> the stuff, and on laptops, ZMD just eats disc I/O.
>>
>> For a while, I just switched off ZMD. Then I decided to be a bit
>> cleverer. I altered the init script that starts zmd, and changed the
>> start command line to be "/usr/bin/nice -n 19 ${ZMD_BIN} $ZMD_OPTIONS"
>>
>> Viola ! My quiet PC is now quiet, and my laptop now runs well at start
>> up.
>>
>> Yes, ZMD takes a lot longer to sort itself out, but it no longer
>> affects me, and that makes me happy.
>>
>> All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping long to
>> install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come back YaST, all is
>> forgiven !)
>>
>> GTG
>
> Hi
> - may we ask as to the whereabouts of bespoken script :-)
I just edited /etc/init.d/novell-zmd
Look for the line that just says "${ZMD_BIN} $ZMD_OPTIONS" and prefix it with
"/usr/bin/nice -n 19 "
GTG
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