Hi, nice is not that flexible. You can not set negative prio. man sched_setscheduler. Here you can specify the scheduling algo too. I wanted to know that does gnugk gives any such option. Some programmes in linux gives this option so that the start themselves with heigh prio. Regards, Prashant, Trikon Electronics Pvt. Ltd. Mob: 9821321280 Off: 91-22-24216325 Teodor Georgiev wrote: > > > >man nice > >On Wednesday 16 March 2005 16:48, Prashant Samant wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am running gnugk.2.2.0 on a slakware9.1 machine. My machine is a >> mail-server plus http server. Because of that it's loaded most of the time. >> I had to give real-time priority to gk to get it to work smoothly. >> >> Is there any inbult option in gk to get realtime priority? Currently I have >> to set the priority externally. This involves risk that if any of the gk >> process hungs then my whole machine will hung. To solve the issue I had to >> keep a shell running with heigher prio than gk which can kill the gk in >> case of crunch. >> >> This method is working fine but I guess it's a lot of overload. So is there >> an easy way to increase gk's responsiveness on heighly loaded machine? >> >> >> Regards, >> Prashant, >> Trikon Electronics Pvt. Ltd. >> Mob: 9821321280 >> Off: 91-22-24216325 > > >------------------------------------------------------- >SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide >Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. >Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > >_______________________________________________________ > >List: Openh323gk-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8549 >Homepage: http://www.gnugk.org/