belbo wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote: [...]$ alias mplayer="nice -n -20 /usr/local/bin/mplayer" Or a script. As to whether this may cause prolems with starving other processes, I don't know. Certainly, if possible, another solution is preferable. MikeI've already considered this solution, but it doesn't work, because of root permissions needed: if I run this command as a normal user, here's the result: $ nice -n -20 /usr/local/bin/mplayer nice: cannot set priority: Permission denied I want to always run the process with maximum priority as normal user.
Do you mean "logged in as a normal user" or do you mean "run as a
normal user"?
$ alias mplayer="sudo nice -n -20 /usr/local/bin/mplayer"
This allows you to log in as a normal user, and run with nice.
But the process does not run as a normal user process.
Also, you need to be one of the sudoers.
Mike
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