Re: Scheduler fails to allow for "niceness" with new/fast processes

[Alan Cox]

There are lots of patterns of activity where the bottleneck will be I/O
rather than CPU, and nice is basically about CPU priority. Package
building does tend to do a lot of disk writing so its not entirely
unexpected
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