Thanks! It looks much better now.
With X nice'd at -10, and 11 hogs loading the cpu, interactivity looks good
until the default timeslice/quota is exhausted and slows down. Maybe
adjusting this according to nice could help.
It may also be advisable to fix latencies according to nice, and adjust
timeslices instead. This may help scaleability a lot, as there are some
timing sensitive apps that may crash under high load.
Thanks!
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Al
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