2 comments: (1) I have tried renicing. nice sets the priority for CPU, not disk activity I believe - in any case it did not work for me. But thanks for the answer! (2a) Mate - if you like Windows so much then go back to it? Rapidly losing time for idiots that come onto a development version of Linux and critise it - they should go back to Redmond and keep working on Longhorn! Your Microsoft cape is sticking out of your undies, my friend. (2b) If you're not a Windoze fan but want a version of Linux which will just work, then have a look at the enterprise version http://www.redhat.com/ - they'll even support you included in the price! Otherwise I think I speak for all of us that knowing about problems is good - people whining about them is unwelcome. (2c) Since when did Linux have to be better than Windoze? If you want Windoze - hey - go buy it! No-one is going to miss you if you do. Marc David Balazic wrote: Aaron Gaudio wrote :Behold, David Balazic <david balazic hermes si> hath decreed:Why don't you renice dvdauthor to a lower priority so that your mouse and other bits of the OS can still function? It worked beautifully. :-) I used renice 5 -p 3203 (3203 being the PID for mecoder at the time)Why doesn't Fedora work out of the box. Why should the user fix it ? And then people wonder why it is not a success on the desktop ...My limited experience with burning CDs on Windows is that its desktop performance is also quite affected when encoding/burning stuff.And FC should copy bad properties of windows, because ... ?As for the original question, you couldMe ? Why me ? Aren't there hundreds of developers and testers who should make the final release usable in real life ? ( Yes, I missed out the FC2 test cycle. It shows ;-) )also probably write a shell script to conveniently nice the encoding in the first place, so that you don't have to use renice to change the priority on the fly... 'man nice'.---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- http://noepatents.org/ Innovation, not litigation ! --- David Balazic mailto:david.balazic@xxxxxxxxx HERMES Softlab http://www.hermes-softlab.com Zagrebska cesta 104 Phone: +386 2 450 8851 SI-2000 Maribor Slovenija ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq. & "Ted" Theodore Logan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- |