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Idea #30161: Freeze other users apps when not active

Written by ways the 19 Sep 12 at 20:14. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Situation:
I share a pretty new laptop (Core i3, 4GB RAM, SSD) with another person. We're both logged in, but have separate, logged in, accounts.

Problem:
When I use the laptop her firefox processes (with flash and all) use a lot of system resources. Especially when I'm on battery and let laptop-mode-tools lower my systems performance things can get quite sluggish.

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Solution #1: Freeze other users
Written by ways the 19 Sep 12 at 20:14.
Allow the system to freeze apps by other non-active (screen is locked) users. This should be optional, and not done on servers.
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Solution #2: Prioritize current user
Written by ways the 19 Sep 12 at 20:18.
Allow system to ionice and nice processes belonging to non-active users.

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Darwin Survivor (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 19 Sep 12 at 22:33
Just a note: unless you have swap, there won't be much you can do about RAM which I'm 95% is the resource you are actually running out of. If you DO have swap, the chances are the other user's memory is already being moved to swap, freeing up physical memory for you.


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