On Monday 17 December 2007 13:24, Anders Johansson wrote: > I think you're confusing "nice" with applications' getting priority when > they're in the foreground (which is the windows strategy), but that's the > other way around Yes... I was alluding to the windoze strategy, but not confused about nice... must poking fun at the windoze strategy...
> Fortunately there is a way of doing it - with ionice you can set IO > scheduling priority idle, and since it's the IO that kills you, it should > be good enough Yes... nice | ionice are our friends... -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]