Re: process in background

2009-04-23 Thread Matyas Sustik
Some more data as suggested. I run without nice, with nice -n 5 and nice -n 10, each version twice: Without nice: real0m10.662s user0m9.513s sys 0m3.448s real0m10.121s user0m7.712s sys 0m2.444s CPU% according to top reached 118%. nice -n 5: real0m22.141s user0m

process in background

2009-04-22 Thread Matyas Sustik
Dear Forum, I am running a video encoding process for which I would like to use all the CPU resources which would otherwise be idle. I do not want this job to get in the way of any other processes (interactive or something like mythbackend). I tried using nice -n 19 but the result is noticably s