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...


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