On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
slightly off-topic to the main subject of this email, I was
wondering:
perhaps we should make gnome-shell automatically raise the nice and ionice
values (ie. lower the priority) of unfocused windows, so that a focused
window will always get priority for I/O and processor time (thus increasing
the perceived performance of the system)
No that's the kernel's job not gnome-shell's. Besides raising the nice
level of background processes does not gain you much if anything in
terms of perceived performance on todays multi core systems.