X priority ?

[pelckyboy]

Hello,

I have some difficulties changing the priority of my X process because of stuttering audio. When I run top, I get :

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4471 root 25 10 184m 73m 15m S 10.0 14.7 468:42.59 X

As you can see, the priority (PR) is marked as 25. How does one change this priority ??? I reniced my X to 10, but it has no effect...

Best regards,

Kristof

[Lucho[FLCL]]

Do you want X to hace more or less priority?

Also, post your machine specs, and the program you are using to listen to music.

AND you can try schedtool:

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lucho-gentoo root # schedtool
get/set scheduling policies - v0.99, GPL'd
USAGE: schedtool PIDS                    - query PIDS
       schedtool [OPTIONS] PIDS          - set PIDS
       schedtool [OPTIONS] -e COMMAND    - exec COMMAND

set scheduling policies:
    -N                    for SCHED_NORMAL
    -F -p PRIO            for SCHED_FIFO       only as root
    -R -p PRIO            for SCHED_RR         only as root
    -B                    for SCHED_BATCH
    -I                    for SCHED_ISO

    -p STATIC_PRIORITY    usually 1-99; only for FIFO or RR
                          higher numbers means higher priority
    -a AFFINITY_MASK      set CPU-affinity to bitmask (hex)

    -e COMMAND [ARGS]     start COMMAND with specified policy/priority
    -v                    be verbose

[pelckyboy]

I want to lower the priority of the X-process.

The music player is the mythmusic plugin for MythTV.

uname -a :
Linux albert 2.6.3-gentoo-r2 #1 Wed Mar 3 23:22:10 CET 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

I'm using XFree 4.3.0-r3.