I know X runs always as root. But setting the X server process' priority to for example -10 makes graphical software response faster. It works for me!! (no matter the system hangs sometimes :). I think you have a fast machine, try it with a very slow computer (sempron processor and radeon xpress200m+fglrx).
2008/5/14 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Josh Cepek wrote: > > > lapitopi gyuszk # snice -15 X > > > > As already pointed out, running process with a nice value less than 0 > > can only be done by root, and it's usually a really bad idea to run > > your entire X session as root. X (and applications running under X) > > involve a lot of code, and vulnerabilities can exist in this code. > > I think you don't know how X runs. > > X *always* runs as root on Linux so whether you nice it to 19 or -19 is > not relevant. It was only very very recently that someone got X to run > as a user. Do you disagree or should I elaborate? > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
