[gentoo-user] Re: Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

2018-07-03 Thread Ian Zimmerman 
On 2018-07-03 00:32, Walter Dnes wrote:

> Actually, minimizing all the spreadsheets and remaining in the same
> workspace similarly reduces cpu usage.  Why would gnumeric
> spreadsheets be using cpu just sitting there, visible or behind
> another program?

You can get that question answered by rebuilding with profiling
information - CFLAGS="-pg -g"

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[gentoo-user] Re: Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

2018-07-02 Thread Grant Edwards 
On 2018-07-02, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov  wrote:
>> kill -s SIGSTOP 
>> kill -s SIGCONT 
>
> Although, such a "freezing" doesn't free any RAM :-/

It should.  The pages used by the stopped process will get swapped out
if/when the RAM is needed for other purposes.

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