Re: [newbie] nice/renice question
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!) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nice/renice question
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 Now I've not done anything with the kernel parameters - under 2.6.x what should I be looking for? Hard drive settings I've played with - DMA is on, etc, etc,... -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nice/renice question
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? Thanks! #!/bin/bash #script to run Starcraft: Brood Wars cd .transgaming/c_drive/Program\ Files/Starcraft nice -n -20 winex3 starcraft.exe -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nice/renice question
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 could be configured so the actual command doesn't have to be typed in every time, but that the system always knows to run this game or app this way. Not sure if you have to give wine a priority as well, but you could just make a bash wrapper script to start it off. Name it something like starcraft.sh #!/bin/bash #Startup script for Starcraft winex starcraft blah blah blah exit then chmod +x starcraft.sh and place it in your path, then all you have to do is type starcraft.sh to start it up. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nice/renice question
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 could be configured so the actual command doesn't have to be typed in every time, but that the system always knows to run this game or app this way. Thanks! I just realised something - have you tried tweaking out your WineX settings? stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products It's when they say 2 + 2 = 5 that I begin to argue. -- Eric Pepke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nice/renice question
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 can't tweak, tweak, tweak a bit, right?) but nothing major has occurred. Remember, its not *just* Winex games...native linux games are running much slower as well. I even tried dropping back 1-2 versions of Winex in case that was it. 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 __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products If a person (a) is poorly, (b) receives treatment intended to make him better, and (c) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health. - Sir Peter Medawar, The Art of the Soluble Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] nice/renice question
-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 01:13 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 could be configured so the actual command doesn't - have to be typed in every time, but that the system always knows to run - this game or app this way. - -Not sure if you have to give wine a priority as well, but you could just make -a bash wrapper script to start it off. Name it something like starcraft.sh - -#!/bin/bash -#Startup script for Starcraft - -winex starcraft blah blah blah - -exit - -then chmod +x starcraft.sh and place it in your path, then all you have to do -is type starcraft.sh to start it up. - I already do have a small script for games like that (Dosbox and Sarien games as well). I have a folder on each of the kids desktop called Games with icons (link to application) in them, pointing to each script, so all they have to do is click an icon to play any game thats installed. For example, the starcraft script looks like this: #!/bin/bash #script to run Starcraft: Brood Wars cd .transgaming/c_drive/Program\ Files/Starcraft winex3 starcraft.exe nice -n -20 winex3 starcraft.exe (see 'nice --help') HTH, Bill so where do I use nice or renice at? (I looked at the man pages and examples off the 'Net but I'm still in unfamiliar territory here). could I add it to the script above or hit the script directy with it? I'd really like it so that when the kids click on the starcraft icon, its done. Thats my goal. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
