Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751237AbVLLLat (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:30:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751238AbVLLLat (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:30:49 -0500 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:32782 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbVLLLat (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:30:49 -0500 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds , Helge Hafting , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc5: multiuser scheduling trouble References: <20051210162759.GA15986@aitel.hist.no> <20051212065150.GA8187@elte.hu> From: Nix X-Emacs: anything free is worth what you paid for it. Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:30:22 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20051212065150.GA8187@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "12 Dec 2005 06:54:39 -0000") Message-ID: <87vexuy2lt.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 692 Lines: 16 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. -- `Don't confuse the shark with the remoras.' --- Rob Landley - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/