Am 25.11.2010 14:30, schrieb John Pilkington: > Hi: My system spends a lot of its time processing video data, often > with not much numerical processing involved - just remuxing or making an > iso image. atop often shows disk activity above 90%. I do most of this > using ionice -c3, (ie 'idle' scheduling) which is supposed to reduce > impact on other tasks. The man page says "The impact of idle io > processes on normal system activity should be zero" and certainly > under f12 that seemed at least approximately true; but under f13 > terminal response is often very sluggish when these tasks are running. > Using kde 4.5.3, scheduling elevator=deadline (as in f12). > > Am I expecting the right thing? Does anyone else see this? > > John P > maybe your processing is using CPU also? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines