Un-nice behaviour from pan

[Eric Potter]

Eric Potter wrote:

> Firstly, let me say that I installed Warty Warthog last week, and
> am thoroughly impressed.  I have completely switched over from
> Mandrake 9.2.  Now on to the problem...
>
> I run pan at nice -n 19 so that it will decode in the background
> and not disturb what I am doing.  However, when pan is decoding binaries
> it seems to override this nice level and suck up most of my CPU.
> If I am playing a video at the time, for example, it will stutter
> badly.  This never happened with Mandrake 9.2.
>
I have discovered that the problem is not with pan, the problem is famd.