Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:26:46PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> I recall seeing "nice() failed" messages the last time I tried X under
> the Hurd, I think that's the reason for this. Try setting the X
> priority to the same value as all other processes imder GNU/Linux and
> start doing unpacking stuff. I'm sure you get the same behaviour.

You should check how nice is called.  nice actually reports some
spurious error even if it iworked, and it doesn't always work.  There is
a bug report about it, I think there was a Mach deficiancy in the way,
but I forgot the details.

Thanks,
Marcus