Yes, X now runs with a nice of -10 (why? deadlocks? Mike Harris would know ...) Try using renice on xmms (as root): renice -15 <pid_of_xmms> You can also (as root): nice -15 xmms But xmms now runs as root. With renice, it still belongs to the user. If you're using esd, it should be renice'd as well. Even if X were running with nice 0, it's still good practice to elevate the priority of the realtime audio processes to avoid skips. Does anyone have a nice way to do this without popping in & out of root? Cheers, -Bob Arendt Yes, X now runs with a nice of -10 (why? deadlocks? Mike Harris would know ...) Nick Gommans wrote: > I am also running the emu-script to give me the more conventional mixer > channels as well as the bass/trebble controls > > I have a hunch that it's related to the X system as I never had this kind of > problem in 7.3 (was running the skipjack beta but i didn't see the problem on > 7.3 when i installed the release version on people's computers) I don't > remember X eating soo much processor power on simple operations. When I > didn't so anything on my computer It idle'd at 0.5% processor usage or less.. > now it's around 3-5% at idle. > > Does everyone else have X with a -10 nice level? I don't remember X ever > having that high a level on my computer and although I can't find a way to > change it, Ithink it might be responsible. > > Nick >
