[PLUG] kio_http is a pig

[drew wymore]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:44 PM, drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:33 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:
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>> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:37:05 -0800
>> Denis Heidtmann <denish at dslnorthwest.net> dijo:
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>> > 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?
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>> 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.
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> 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>
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Here is a good explanation of what kio_http is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIO