The only way I know to elevate priority above zero is to use renice as root. The process is elevated in priority, but *does not* belong to root. Only root can elevate a process's priority above the 0 baseline. Here's a one-liner that should work: renice -15 `ps -eo pid,comm | grep -w xmms | cut -d' ' -f 1` Example: # ps -eo pid,opri,nice,user,comm |grep xmms 13136 75 0 joe xmms # renice -15 `ps -eo pid,comm | grep -w xmms | cut -d' ' -f 1` 13136: old priority 0, new priority -15 # ps -eo pid,opri,nice,user,comm |grep xmms 13136 60 -15 joe xmms The process still owned by joe, not root. A crude way would be to have a cron job periodically run to zap the priority of xmms. This only affects the processes scheduling and doesn't interupt the process while running. Maybe you could script it and use sudo? (I've never used sudo ...). Hope this helps, -Bob Arendt Nick Gommans wrote: > I can't (not to mention won't) run XMMS as root, the easy answer is since my > music is shared to this computer using NFS root doesn't have access to them. > > now i'm intersted in what you were saying about moving the audio processes up > a notch. right now i have XMMS using the OSS Driver (used it in 7.3 as well) > it seems to connect directly to the mixer device and in the past it has > appeard to run the best ou of the the given list of output methods. > > If you could give me a way to move the audio process to be above X in priority > I would really appreciate it. > > Thanks, > Nick > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
