Bash script to improve responsiveness under system strain

[faris]

Anybody else seen this? I can't make sense of it:

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternat ... patch.html

[mikeshinn]

CPU grouping, I use it on my workstations and laptops, its very helpful for what I do. The short answer is that its grouping processes by tty and dividing resources from there. It makes workstations and laptops more responsive (to the GUI), for a server, dunno what the effect would be havent tried it yet - keep in mind its about scheduling and grouping, so it cant give you more horsepower its just gonna make the system a little more "fair" - so it might actually be a cool thing to explore on a server. To use it you'll need to install and turn on all the cgroup stuff on your box too to use it, as by default the cgroup filesystem wont be mounted.

Also if you use this method make sure you add it to you skel bashrc and not each users.

I say give it a try on your servers to see how it does for you.