Please make gc_approx cron job run nice 19

Bug #106944 reported by Michael Sebastian
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
approx (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
approx (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: approx

The weekly gc_approx cron job can lead to heavy system load.
There is no good reason for this background process to have equal priority with user processes.
I was watching a high resolution HDTV show.
When the cron job started mythtv could not get enough processor time to decode the video.
First there were many glitches and then mythtv locked up.
I was able to recreate the problem by running the cron job from the command line while watching TV.
After I changed the cron job to run gc_approx as nice -19 mythtv worked much better.
There were still a few video glitches but things were much better.

Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in approx:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote :

Wow this is a really old bug report. Still a pretty good idea. :)

I've forwarded this to Debian, marking it as also affects Debian, and setting status to Triaged. Setting Importance to Wishlist.

Changed in approx (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
summary: - [edgy] Please make gc_approx cron job run nice 19
+ Please make gc_approx cron job run nice 19
Changed in approx (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Changed in approx (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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