What works best for me is just the opposite of what you have: namely, minus five for speech-dispatcher, plus five for speechd-up. On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:05:27AM -0700, Keith Hinton wrote: > Could it perhaps be nice values? > Speechd-up is set to minus five, on my computer. Speech-Dispatcher (though I have not looked yet) is probably set to nice plus five. > These should work, but apparently: > While running Speechd-up in GDB, I got speech to die. But speechd-up just stopped working normally, did not output anything to send to the developers of the software. I would like to find out what types of nice values some of you folks use. Speech-dispatcher and or at this point I no longer know if speechd-up itself is the cause, but speech-dispatcher appears to be what is breaking, something perhaps with it's C interface, I don'tk now anymore. > The point is, what other types of nice values could I use, without maxing out the CPU's in my dual-core box? > I'll chek back shortly, regards --Keith > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (23% of Full) But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh