Previously Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > while (loadavg > threshold) > sleep(10); Are you proposing doing that for all load-intensive applications? I would object to that. I seem to remember we have a tool that automatically stops a process if the load gets too high, maybe that would be useful here.. You should propose this on debian-devel though.. > A lot of programs start update-menus in the background upon installation. If > you install (or upgrade) 50 of them, you get 50 running update-menus processes > fighting for CPU cycles. That's not true, update-menu detect there is already a copy running and doesn't start a new one. Once dpkg is finished that single update-menu process will update all menus. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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