On 10/25/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > His numbers show a majority of time in the IO yes. But there is still > time on the CPU, nicing it should cut that part down. Maybe not > significantly, but hey it's worth a shot.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I would just point out that nicing to a higher priority would only really help if his process is competing with other running processes. This likely isn't the case (unless he's running Gentoo -- in which case every process will constantly compete with the 24x7 gcc process :-P) -Bryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
