On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:55:07AM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > The problem I'm facing is about the screensaver. When I'm using my X > session, and my wife's screensaver kicks in, it hogs my CPU (not to > speak about the memory)... Is there any way to either nice the > screensaver (which I think it should be by default) and/or make it > suspend itself when that particular X session is not the current one > (which I also feel could be at least an option -- that would be even > better, as the screensaver would be thrown to disk swap...)?
if your using xscreensaver then the `hack' as jwz calls them is indeed niced, by default to 10, you can change this in ~/.xscreensaver via the nice: option. however some hacks don't really do any of the work themselves, they hand most of it off to the X server which is not niced, `ifs' is one such hack. i would suggest disabling the significantly resource intensive hacks, along with having xscreensaver nice them to 20. the best way to do this i imagine is to run top when you notice a slowdown and check to see if its the hack or the other X server that is the pig, if its the server then disable that particular hack. disable all the GL hacks. if your not using xscreensaver, well i don't know what to suggest other then switch to xscreensaver ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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