From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 4:56:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044FC37B405 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 04:56:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.darq.net (phear.darq.net [213.253.1.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 479F243E4A for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 04:56:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reflex@darq.net) Received: (qmail 28020 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Jan 2003 12:56:12 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:56:12 +0000 From: Ian Morrison To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: starting x at a high priority Message-ID: <20030123125612.GB24314@phear.darq.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Url: http://www.darq.net/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hey fellows, i'm trying to tune my laptop here (IBM T22 running 4.7-STABLE with X 4.2.1) and had heard that upping the priority would help increase responsiveness under X. because i use startx from a console when i want to use X, and don't use XDM, i've been trying to work out which script to modify in order to startx with a priority of -1, but without starting as root. i've had a couple of failed attempts, so thought i'd ask here to see if anyone had any clues. also, does anyone have any other performance tips for a laptop? i've got 256 meg of ram, so was wondering if putting /tmp on a mfs would help.. i've had a look through the tuning(7) manpage, and some other docs, but they mostly seem to talk about tuning for a busy network server. is tuning actually possible for a workstation (ie, is FreeBSD already optimised for these types of machines), and does it offer a substantial difference? i'm currently using the machine for general tasks, web browsing with galeon, viewing media in mplayer, and endlessly compiling to feed my portupgrade fetish :) any tips would be gratefully received. stay frosty, ian -- :: darq.net /#/ :: live to kourier, kourier to live To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message