so there is no way to "give" a higher priority to the program from
within a non-root account?

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 10:36, FLYNN, Steve wrote:
> You can 'nice' the task, to a lower value to give it more cpu cycles.
> 
> However, to do so, you will have to be root anyway. It's easy enough to do
> with the sudo command though...
> 
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:   Nelson Bartley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>       Sent:   Sunday, March 17, 2002 3:29 PM
>       To:     LM Newbie Mailing List
>       Subject:        [newbie] Higher priority for XMMS
> 
>       I've got a question..
> 
>       I've been finding that XMMS is skipping a lot on my system. Not
> because
>       my system isn't fast, but rather because I've got ALOT of things
> going
>       on on it. (folding, evolution, gaim, gkrellm, mozilla, kdevelop,
>       gnomeicu, etc...) I was wondering if it were posible to give XMMS a
>       higher priority (like say realtime)?
> 
>       (and yes I realize I can log in as root and run the app, but that is
>       very annoying)
> 
>       NB
> 
> 
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