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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> Please renice your CPU hog soundcard processes to -11, does that make any
> difference? (under -K2)

I can renice this only for testing purposes. Normally these are not run as
root so I can't do negative renice.
 
> is it more important to run these CPU hogs than to run interactive tasks?
> If yes then renice them to -11.

Yes and no... :) Interactive tasks get their work from CPU hogs so those are
strongly related. If interactive task puts CPU hog to wait it will also lose
it's data.


	- Jussi Laako

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