On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 16:56, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 03:45:08PM -0700, Christopher Keller wrote:
> > Bill,
> >
> > Actually I went ahead and stuck the following line in rc.local
> >
> > /usr/bin/renice -10 -p `/bin/ps -elf | /bin/grep /etc/X11/X | /bin/awk
> > '{print $4}' | /usr/bin/head -1`
> >
>
> Er.... actually something like "renice -10 -p $(pidof X)" will be
> simpler and even correct. Not mentioning those details that with the
> above you can pick your 'grep' process and using grep in order to pipe
> to awk is not really the way to do things; head is also superfluous
> as awk can do that just by itself (and you still have no idea in
> which order processes will be listed).
>
Actually, I do. The ps command lists the processes in numerical order by
PID. By definition, X will have always been started before the renice.
So that will work every time...guaranteed.
However, the pidof is a much better solution. Completely unaware it
existed. Thanks.
> The only thing is that you have to wait with this until your X server
> process is actually started. If you are using 'gdm' then you can
> stick that into your "BackgroundProgram" (see /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf).
> With other startup methods some other device of that sort will need
> to be used. 'rc.local' can turn out to be tad too early.
>
> Michal
Hmm....okay, I'll double check this. I'll do a little research on
gdm.conf.
--Chris
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