Re: Processes Run at Nice 19!
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 20:00:56 David Baron wrote:
> I still have not gotten to the root of this very annoying problem.
>
> In the earliest KDE4 versions, stuff started up at the normal default nice
> of 0 (priority 20). I had a renice script to get all those akonadi daemons
> niced out of the way so kde4 would be usable.
>
> One version (4.2.*) had stuff starting at 0, priority 40 (did not know
> there was such an animal) but it played nicely.
>
> After that, it seems, everything of kde4's menus, desktop icons, anything
> it spawns is being niced to 19. This renders kde4 unusable. So my renicer
> script sets plasma-desktop, kmail and several of the core utilities back
> to 0 so I can use it. But this workaround is no answer.
>
> I have no idea why this is going on. Any ideas?
and actually, the KDE process start out properly at 0/20. A top running in a
konsole or yakuake will show them being switched to 19/39 after a short time!!
After this, anything spawned by KDE will have 19/39. Commands typed into the
konsole will be 0/20.
What might do this? Which KDE process determines what .desktop clicks get
niced? Might workaround by renicing that one to 0 immediately.
Also, this apparently does not effect other users.
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