makewhatis - out of nowhere

[Jim Cornette]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 03:45:02PM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>Prelink also hogs the CPU and causes a similar problem as you describe. 
>>Rather than disable all of these services, adding preference entries for 
>>controlling background processes to run at lower percntages would be a 
>>better approach.
> 
> 
> They *do* run at lowered priority, but maybe also doing something to limit
> their CPU usage would also be good.
> 

I'm for this since programs like cpufreq do what they are supposed to 
do, they up the processor speed when the CPU load rises. Since this is a 
background process, I could care less if the program took twice the time 
to complete. I would not be aware of it running if it did not produce 
higher temperatures or reduced responsiveness since it cannot hog the 
processor.

Hopefully this can be worked out for laptop users as well as for 
computers that are not left on 24/7.

Jim

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