On Friday 11 February 2005 02:25 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Chris wrote: > >I'm still trying to remove the 'skip' in XMMS when getting streaming > > audio. I've got it set to a renice value of -20, Kmail to a setting of > > 15, firefox to a setting of 19, mozilla 19 and my two gkrellm stacks are > > set at 19 each. I'm still getting the 'skip'. In the snip from man > > renice, it mentions PRIO_MAX. What would that setting be? Or is -20 the > > max renice setting? > > > > The super-user may alter the priority of any process and set the > > priority to any value in the range PRIO_MIN (-20) to PRIO_MAX. > > Useful priorities are: 20 (the affected processes will run only when > > nothing else in the system wants to), 0 (the ``base'' scheduling > > priority), any- thing negative (to make things go very fast). > > I though only root could renice something higher then 0. I haven't > checked lately, but in the past, trying > to renice something to -20 as a user didn't do anything. > > Mikkel
I'm running it su'd to root, I was just wondering if there was any setting higher that -20. I tried "renice -30 (pid) and it defaulted to -20 so I guess -20 is the highest there is. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 17:05:57 up 31 days, 23:42, 2 users, load average: 1.61, 1.68, 1.34 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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