Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc5: multiuser scheduling trouble

From: Nix
Date: Mon Dec 12 2005 - 06:30:12 EST


On 12 Dec 2005, Ingo Molnar announced authoritatively:
> does this mean X defaults to nice level 0, and then if you renice
> Firefox and X by +10, everything is fine? Or is Linus' suspicion, and X
> defaults to something like nice -5? (e.g. on Debian type of systems)

Your latter suspicion is correct, on Debian at least: see the setting of
nice_value in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config.

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