| Date: | Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:27:09 +0300 |
| From: | Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> |
| Organization: | Athens University of Economics and Business |
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| Subject: | Re: Lower a process priority |
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Binary wrote: > I am running Azureus(a bit torrent client) and find that it eats too > many CPU power, 99%. I try to re-nice it thru top to set to 19, but > this can't reduce the cpu usage, it is remain 99%. The CPU usage won't be reduced, unless another process competes for the CPU time. If you want your CPU to remain idle for some time periods (perhaps to consume less power) you would have to modify that process to call nanosleep(2) at periodic intervals. -- Diomidis Spinellis Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective (Addison-Wesley 2006) http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality?colda
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