That is in the sample implementation. That line exists in the XFree86 code base going back a decade. http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/xinit/xinit.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup On my machine PRIO_PROCESS is defined in /usr/include/linux/resource.h Mark. On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Ed Sweetman wrote: > First of all i'd like to thank the guy who thought it would be really > cool to make X set it's priority as a hardcoded value by default instead > of having it be set from a config file. > > Line 624 of xinit.c has this. > #ifdef PRIO_PROCESS > > setpriority( PRIO_PROCESS, serverpid, -1 ); > > #endif > > > I've been compiling my own X for literally years and i dont remember > seeing PRIO_PROCESS documented anywhere in xf86site.def as a > configurable option nor any other documents on having in a config file > somewhere to override it with another option name. Debian's X server > uses something called Xwrapper.conf but that's a debian thing. So if > this is indeed a configuration option i'm missing to override it then > I'd be very happy if someone would show me where i could find that > configuration option and where to have it. Otherwise I suggest this > code be removed from X as it's completely annoying, useless, and > obviously not very documented since my previous questions on how come my > server is being niced to -1 all the time was met with no response > whatsoever. > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86