From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Brian Hall"  wrote in message
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> Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
>
> > Thanks. So, why does it use the cpu all the time, is it like part of the
> > task scheduler or something like that?
>
> I recommend against doing a google search for "nice load". The
> results have nothing to do with the Linux scheduler! 

Yep, that's why I was asking here. It's a bit poorly chosen name...


> I'm not familiar the the KDE System Guard. I just brought it up
> and my "Nice Load" shows 0. If yours is showing something,
> it probably means some process is running at a higher than normal
> priority.

Thanks. I'll see if I can dig something up. I'm just trying to get some
stuff out of an installation that runs on an old computer, to make it more
tolerable, so I'm trying to find out what each of the processes are in
order to recognize which ones I can shut down. Most I can google for, but
not all.


Antti Kurenniemi

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