Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc5: multiuser scheduling trouble

From: Helge Hafting
Date: Mon Dec 12 2005 - 07:34:49 EST


Nix wrote:

On 12 Dec 2005, Ingo Molnar announced authoritatively:


does this mean X defaults to nice level 0, and then if you renice
Firefox and X by +10, everything is fine? Or is Linus' suspicion, and X
defaults to something like nice -5? (e.g. on Debian type of systems)



Your latter suspicion is correct, on Debian at least: see the setting of
nice_value in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config.


This value is 0 on my debian system - as recommended for the kernels
I use.

Hegle Hafting
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