Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:32:00 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Re: Priorities? Message-ID: <199610281032.LAA02943@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199610251954.VAA09631@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199610251533.KAA02790@dyson.iquest.net> <199610251954.VAA09631@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J. Wunsch writes: >`idleprio' processes are being scheduled only if absolutely no other >processes are runnable, and the system would otherwise enter the idle >loop. Thus, they are good e.g. for X11 screen savers. I remembered my department defined a 'xlock' icon in .fvwmrc for new users. They used 'nice -20 xlock'. It was a disaster on X terminals, nobody can login because the server for the X terminals are never idle. Wolfram
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