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Subject: Re: Priorities?
To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 13:36:37 +0100 (MEZ)
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In-Reply-To: <199610281032.LAA02943@campa.panke.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Oct 28, 96 11:32:00 am
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E-mail message from Wolfram Schneider contained:
> 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.

No wonder.  nice -20 is the *highest* priority (aside from rtprio
processes).  What they wanted was nice +20 xlock  (the lower the nice
value, the higher the priority of the process; it makes sense: the nicer
the process, the lesser it influences the other processes).

/Marino
> 
> Wolfram
>