Comment 18 for bug 177713

On 1/20/08, DanaGoyette <email address hidden> wrote:
> Well, if this is by design, then I guess I need a new method of running
> folding@home -- whether I run it as root or as a new user, even at
> IDLEPRIO and +19, the folding@home process still slows down other things
> on the system. The input lag is no longer present, and the process does
> show up as 'nice', but Compiz drops to half its framerate. It seems odd
> to me that a process cannot simply yield its CPU cycles to other
> processes regardless of user. Will I now have to arbitrarily assign a
> CPU time percentage to the user?
>

If you run it as a different user, you can reduce the weight that
group has by changing the value of /sys/kernel/uids/<uid of
folding@home>/cpu_share

nice should retain behaviour within a group.

Dhaval