On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > slightly off-topic to the main subject of this email, I was wondering: > perhaps we should make gnome-shell automatically raise the nice and ionice > values (ie. lower the priority) of unfocused windows, so that a focused > window will always get priority for I/O and processor time (thus increasing > the perceived performance of the system) No that's the kernel's job not gnome-shell's. Besides raising the nice level of background processes does not gain you much if anything in terms of perceived performance on todays multi core systems. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
