things seem to be much better with this 'nice' setting. btw why did it have so high priority? greg At 20:43 2002. 08. 27.istory., you wrote: >Newsmail wrote: > > I'm using the -ac kernels, with riels VM. unfortunately that vm is not > > documented at all, I have no idea how it works exactly. I'm trying to tune > > a bit bdflush maybe if would help, but I didnt have too much succes yet > > with it. > >Can you change line 795 of loop-AES-v1.6f/loop.c-2.4.diff from: > >+ set_user_nice(current, -20); > >to: > >+ set_user_nice(current, 0); > >and recompile loop.o, and "rmmod loop", and try again. After that change >loop helper thread should get less CPU time. Please let me know how it >works. > > > ps: what is the loop helper thread? > >Just a process dedicated to doing crypto and loop work. Each initialized >loop device has one such process on 2.4 and 2.5 kernels. > >Regards, >Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
