On 05/13/2013 06:43 PM, Dirk Brandewie wrote: > I spent some more time looking for a solution to this you can get same > behavior > by setting a config option in BOINC "Use at most X % CPU time" yes - that's true. But BOINC is just an example. If "nice -19 <loooong running background job" is nowadays so uncommon, then I'm just curious what's the modern (easy) way of doing that ? -- MfG/Sincerely Toralf Förster pgp finger print: 7B1A 07F4 EC82 0F90 D4C2 8936 872A E508 7DB6 9DA3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html