[ale] renice

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

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