Re: Help nice'ing the screensaver
I've gone directly into the gnome control center and simply set the priority
level quite low. This is a slider, so no numbers are displayed. Found out
later that this changes the invocation line in ~/.gnome/Screensaver to a
good setting (18), where I don't see it interfering with anything else.
Kenward
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:52:38AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:55:07AM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
>
> >
> > The problem I'm facing is about the screensaver. When I'm using my X
> > session, and my wife's screensaver kicks in, it hogs my CPU (not to
> > speak about the memory)... Is there any way to either nice the
> > screensaver (which I think it should be by default) and/or make it
> > suspend itself when that particular X session is not the current one
> > (which I also feel could be at least an option -- that would be even
> > better, as the screensaver would be thrown to disk swap...)?
>
> if your using xscreensaver then the `hack' as jwz calls them is indeed
> niced, by default to 10, you can change this in ~/.xscreensaver via
> the nice: option.
>
> however some hacks don't really do any of the work themselves, they
> hand most of it off to the X server which is not niced, `ifs' is one
> such hack. i would suggest disabling the significantly resource
> intensive hacks, along with having xscreensaver nice them to 20.
>
> the best way to do this i imagine is to run top when you notice a
> slowdown and check to see if its the hack or the other X server that
> is the pig, if its the server then disable that particular hack.
> disable all the GL hacks.
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