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There is this special case, which will let me make coasters every time
-- when nget is updating it headers. I'm using a not-so-monster news
server, which can't compete with supper-monster news server like
giganews, etc. However, whenever nget updates it headers, my computer is
brought down to its knees. I run my nget with "nice -n 12", and my growisofs
(for DVD burning) with "nice -n -2", even so I make coasters from time
to time.
I think it must related with kswapd0 -- the kernel page fault swap
daemon. Shouldn't page faults caused by "nice -n 12" tasks have much lower
priorities then that from "nice -n -2"? I think it should, but why I
make coasters from time to time then?
My box's memory is 768M. I don't think it is too small.
tong
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