Re: XMMS will not load except as root

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 08:26 am, Cal Peake wrote:

> There's some patches flying around right now on the linux kernel mailing
> list for allowing non-root users to nice processes at negative values.
> There's a good chance they'll be included in the mainline soon. Funnily
> enough, their origin is in low latency audio work.
>
> For now, if you have root on the box you should be able to start xmms, su
> to root, and renice the process (renice -10 PID).
>
> -- Cal

Thanks Cal, finally got it to work after mucking around with  the renice 
command.  I had to renice xmms to -20, renice mozilla to 15.  After I closed 
mozilla I had to renice Kmail to 15.  Odd I never had this problem when 
running MDK 9.0 with a much older kernel.

Thanks for the advice.

-- 
Chris
Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org
17:36:36 up 1 day, 13 min, 1 user, load average: 0.90, 0.77, 0.52
Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk
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