[mythtv-users] Folding at home, having it start/stop between recordings/jobs??

[David Schmidt]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com> wrote:
>> The latter.  Basically, a process with a higher priority will get
>> resources before a process with a lower priority. (It's a bit more
>> complicated and I don't pretend to understand it but for country bumpkins
>> like me that explanation will suffice.)
>>
>> So f at h is grinding along, sucking up 100% CPU, and then myth cranks up,
>> needs CPU cycles, and the f at h process will get less CPU.  Lots less if
>> myth is high in the list and f at h is low.
>>
>> I'm surprised you don't have man pages on those; AFAIK they're a basic
>> part of any *nix.  Your distro must have them as an optional install.
>
> Okay, thanks, that is pretty clear (even for me lol).
>
>> Note if you are iobound this is NOT your solution, however....
>
> Can you explain this?
>
>
> Thanks a bunch
> Bob
>

nice/renice throttle on the CPU.  If no one is using CPU but thrashing
all trying to get to the disk, it won't be throttling at all,
effectively.