[PLUG] kio_http is a pig

[drew wymore]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:33 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:37:05 -0800
> Denis Heidtmann <denish at dslnorthwest.net> dijo:
>
> > John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > ...
> > > basically the CPU cores are
> > > tied up. Looking in System > Administration > System Monitor reveals
> > > that there are three instances of kio_http running, each consuming 30+%
> > > of CPU time....
> >
> > I do not know if Linux supports nice.  Can it be a help?
>
> Tell me more about nice. I see a column in System > Administration >
> System Monitor that is labeled "nice." Sadly, it never occurred to the
> developers of System Monitor to create documentation explaining what
> "nice" is;.
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Nice allows you to control how much any given process has access to
resources. Much like setting priorities for a process in Windows.

nice -19 {I believe thats the lowest priority but I may have it backwards, I
haven't used nice in a few years}  <$PID or process name>