Bug 57634

Summary:	lower priority of printing processes suggested
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer>
Component:	kcmprintmgr	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Ferdinand Gassauer 2003-04-24 10:09:22 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.1.1)
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.2.19

Hi!
IMHO the processes preparing the print output should run with nice.

If KDE is running on a server it considerably slows down the the overall performance if the print process (gs or ps2pdf) a running with high priority.

I found the exec:/gs command and just wanted to suggest to prepend "nice" to all of the commands.
Do not know if this works on all platforms

On a single user box it will not do much harm except it accelaretes other things which are not blocked by gs any more and on a multiuser system all processes/users  would benefit.

in my case samba didn't respond any more in time.

cu
ferdinand

Comment 1 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-02-06 14:43:52 UTC

Not feasible for KDE to do. If someone desires this, he should set up his system individually to make cupsd run with a different "nice" level.

Changing this would only trigger myriads of other wishes, in attempts to renice other daemons and processes in favor of KDE.

If a user does not need to print, he should disable cupsd altogether.

Comment 2 Ferdinand Gassauer 2007-02-06 17:08:31 UTC

I was not talking about cups - I do not think that cups daemon and processes are a burden.

I was talking about the (KDE) appication generating the ps or pdf file which create sometimes (graphics) a very high CPU load slowing down or prohibiting to do other things.

IMHO this can/could be controlled by KDE programms.