[ale] renice

[Jay Goodman]

> Jay Goodman wrote:
>> edit your limits.conf file   (/etc/security/limits.conf)
>>
>> Add a line like
>> myusername   -    nice   -10
>>
>>
>>
>> This should do the trick.  Make sure you fall completely out of the top
>> most login (exit X and re-login)  for these limits to take effect.
>>
>>
>> I don't use ubuntu, but from the claims of another ale'r I'd guess that
>> they prepackage a limits.conf that has a @users line that allows higher
>> niceness.
>
> Ubuntu's limits.conf is empty (well, commented out).
>
> The confusion is that David is trying to set a more favorable priority
> (nice --10) but William is reporting a less favorable priority (nice
> -10) working. I think the former won't work without your change, but the
> latter should.
>
> -Brian
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