On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:46:27 +0100 Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 23:44 -0800, David Lang wrote: > > > why isn't niceing X to -10 an acceptable option? > > Xorg's priority is only part of the problem. Every client that needs > a substantial quantity of cpu while a hog is running will also need > to be negative nice, no? I don't suppose you can be a bit more specific, and define how much CPU constitutes a "substantial quantity"? It looks to me like X already got about half of a CPU. > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ P COMMAND > 6599 root 26 0 174m 30m 8028 R 51 3.1 7:08.70 0 Xorg I'm hoping that actually quantifying this issue will result in a better understanding of the issue... Thanks, Mark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
