Re: How to make apps play nice?

[Torben Keil <torben.keil@nexgo.de>]

Hi,

you have a cheap network card and the driver for it needs the wohle CPU, do 
you?

Greets,
Torben

On Saturday 17 December 2005 01:58, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> I'm running Debian amd64 on an Asus board with an AMD64 3200+ and a gig of
> ram.
>
> This box is mainly used as a home media center and file server. Most
> of the time the system monitor shows that CPU usage is around 23% and
> ram usage between 40% and 80%. But for some reason when I copy files
> (cp or scp network copying) it seems to take over - CPU usage shoots
> up to 100% and everything else starts stuttering. Same thing also
> happens with running find command or other programs. If I am listening
> to music it starts skipping, if I am watching video, it basically
> stops. Why is this? I know I can use 'nice' to change the niceness of
> a program, but I want to know how to alter settings so that things
> like cp, scp, find, etc do not hog up the entire CPU all the time, not
> just on a case-by-case basis.
>
> Any help or advice would be appreciated.
>
> Craig