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[LAZA <738967@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I posted some time again that a complete backup from my data last at
least 11 hours or more!

Today i invented, that the nice priority of the backup process could be one of the problems for this.
Looking into the system state gives me this:
cron                                   root     0
   cron                                root     0
      bash                            root     0
         sbackup-launch         root     0
            python                   root      0
               python                laza           19
               python                nobody     19
            tar                          root           19
               bzip2                   root           19  (uses 96 % of an core)

So for me all the childs of the bash - which has the nice priority 0 - should also inherit the nice 0 so the backup process is shurely faster.
Alternativly would it be a great advantage if the user itself could define the priority of the backup process!
Problem with this is also, that all BOINC processes have the priority 19 and are in this situation competitors but should not 'block' the backup!

Ubuntu 10.04.2
sbackup 0.11.4ppa1~lucid1

** Affects: sbackup
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  all childs should inherit the nice-value from cron