> Basically, I think that the nice level needs to affect not only time
     slices in
   > the scheduler but also page-in or disk-access priority. Is that possible?

   Write simple program (or script) that your screensaver can call to send
   SIGSTOP and SIGCONT to your long running process.

That's a good idea. How does one get the screensaver to call a script? I'm
running the default screensaver from Accelerated X.

    Jeff (http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/qobi)
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