How could I speed up my hard disk.
You could use DMA, but I believe that's on by default for chipsets where it works.
Or - how could I manage, that the one process in the background using the harddisk intensivly - does not slow down the hole system that much, that I can´ t move the mouse anymore.
Have you determined that it is one process? How? What is it? What files is it using? Is it reading or writing to them?
If you have another disk, you may fix your problem by moving your files there.
Is there another possibility than the nice -level?
'renice' is generally what you do to a process that's impacting other processes negatively on a UNIX system.
I heard the scheduler of linux is rather poor.
Which kernel are you running? The newer errata kernels include some very nice scheduler code backported from 2.5, IIUC.
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