> Surely this is not intended? I mean the system has priority > because it needs it? > You could of course do it with sudo. The following in /etc/sudoers > murray ALL = NOPASSWD:/bin/nice > allows me to do > > > sudo nice --adjustment=-10 ls > > Does that do what you need? > Bill Maybe I should expand a little, as perhaps what I want can be solved in a different way. I'm running compiz. It works very well, but I have noticed that under heavy load, such as whilst I am "making" something, the desktop gets rather sluggish. I have also noticed if I run make (or whatever else takes a lot of cpu) with low priority (i.e. "nice -10 make") the system remains fully responsive. So, I was thinking, instead of running everything else with a positive nice value, which is difficult to arrange, why not run compiz with a negative one .... So thats my reasoning.... Maybe my idea is flawed ? cheers Chris
