On Dienstag, 19. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2008 15:30:07 Dale wrote: > > Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > > > << SNIP >> > > > > > > I'm running the machine for multi-media-use, and I would like to make > > > sure that I tune the media-programs to leave sufficcient cpu to handle > > > the odd house-keeping task, while at the same time doing as much > > > post-processing for image and sound quality as possible. Is there a > > > way to get top to make sense, or are there other tools you good people > > > would recommend ? > > > > The only thing I can think of that may help is to use the nice command > > to give some processes more or less priority. That may or may not help > > you any but it is a thought. > > > > Otherwise, I tend to agree with Alan. Leave it to the kernel. > > I thought of one thing that might help - perhaps the media apps in question > are single threaded and might benefit from a different preemption model > algorithm. Give the old-fashioned server model a try instead of desktop or > low-latency desktop. It's worth a try, YMMV
and voluntary preemption beats forced preemption.
