Kyle <kyle@ccidomain.com> writes:
> Shridhar has a good point using nice. I know RedHat supports nice
> because I have installed a totally background program that uses "nice
> 19" as part of its command line.
He's talking about honoring 'nice' for I/O scheduling, which is
in addition to the standard modification of CPU priority. Linux
doesn't currently do this in 2.4--it was discussed for 2.5 but I don't
know if it has gone in yet.
-Doug