Re: xinit setting priority of X process

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   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.
> 
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