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? T

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 - propriet

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

2004-07-06 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 Mey

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

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 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