Re: [newbie] nice/renice question

2004-07-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 09:24 pm, Bill Shirley wrote: -nice -n -20 winex3 starcraft.exe - -(see 'nice --help') - -HTH, -Bill Thanks Bill, I looked at man nice and renice but overlooked --help. I'll see if that does the trick. (and thanks to everyone else who replied!) --

Re: [newbie] nice/renice question

2004-07-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 05:32 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: -Well, something's smelly here (no, not your feet); have you tried -utilising powertweak to tickle some of the kernel params yet? And I'll -assume you've tweaked your /etc/sysconfig/harddisks file as well, ya? - -stephen kuhn - proprietor

Re: [newbie] nice/renice question

2004-07-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 09:24 pm, Bill Shirley wrote: -nice -n -20 winex3 starcraft.exe - -(see 'nice --help') - -HTH, -Bill Okay, I put this in my starcraft.sh file and it gives me a permission denied when I try to run it - it seems nice requires root privileges to do this. Any ideas?

[newbie] nice/renice question

2004-07-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, so I want to give a game on my sons comp *top* priorty when running. (I'm still trying to get better performance out of 10.0 here). How can I make a game like Starcraft, via winex3 or cedega run with a -20? It would be nice if it could be configured so the actual command doesn't have to

Re: [newbie] nice/renice question

2004-07-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 01:13 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, so I want to give a game on my sons comp *top* priorty when running. (I'm still trying to get better performance out of 10.0 here). How can I make a game like Starcraft, via winex3 or cedega run with a -20? It would be nice if it

Re: [newbie] nice/renice question

2004-07-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 15:13, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, so I want to give a game on my sons comp *top* priorty when running. (I'm still trying to get better performance out of 10.0 here). How can I make a game like Starcraft, via winex3 or cedega run with a -20? It would be nice if it

Re: [newbie] nice/renice question

2004-07-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:07, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2004 03:33 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: -I just realised something - have you tried tweaking out your WineX -settings? - -stephen kuhn - proprietor I have played around with them a bit (what good are settings for if you

RE: [newbie] nice/renice question

2004-07-06 Thread Bill Shirley
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 5:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] nice/renice question On Tuesday 06 July 2004 02:44 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -On Tuesday 06 July 2004 01