On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:15 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Matthias Langer schreef: > > > Now, what i want is the same for p2p apps - give them > > as much bandwidth they can reasonably get but don't let them slow down > > firefox, ssh etc. > > In the case of Azureus specifically, your problem is actually not with > Azureus, but with Java (that's what's slowing down, and further what is > likely to be slowing down Firefox as well if it's running. Certainly I > find that running both Firefox and Azureus together is the fast road to > The System of Molasses).
Hmm, i can't confirm this, bacause as long as azureus is not down/uploading heavily browsing is not really affected. But this may differ from java-vm to vm. I use sun-jdk-1.5.05 because i do same java programming stuff ... > > You might consider aliasing Java to run at a "good" niceness > > (in ~/.bashrc) > > alias java="nice -n 15 java" > > so that when Azureus starts the (many, many) Java processes that it > uses, they will be niced to something you can live with. > > What effect this will have on Firefox, I cannot say, however. > > Just an idea, hope it helps, > > Holly > But thanks for your answer nevertheless, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
