Renicing saned doesn't renice xsane automatically. Renicing one process influences only the future children. So your note is irrelevant.
Look at setpriority(...) and/or sched_yield(). Good example for any of the saned copies: if(number_of_read_bytes==0) sched_yield(); _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]