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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: Priorities?
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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