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Re: startx setting the nice level to 5?



Matthias Czapla wrote:
> I just noticed that lots of my process run at nice level 5. When I login
> at the VC the nice level is 0 as it should and all console programs
> inherit this nice value as they should. But when I startx everything
> from thereon and including the shell that is executing the startx
> script has a nice value of 5. The startx script and all the files
> under /etc/X11 don't contain the string "nice" so I really don't know
> where this is coming from. Has anybody a clue?

binary files can also set the nice value using the syscall nice()... perhaps the
XFree86 binary does this and everything inherits.

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