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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/21/2009 04:43 PM, David Schmidt wrote:
> 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.

Thus ionice, to ask the that the process doesn't get in the way of 
others using the disk.

Mike