http://linuxexchange.org/tags/priority/?type=rssquestions tagged <span class="tag">priority</span>enWed, 15 Feb 2012 22:47:44 -0500http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2784/prioritise-x-applications-with-focus<p>Is there a way to prioritise X applications with focus, preferably both in terms of CPU and I/O?</p> <p>Something like all X applications are <code>nice</code>d and <code>ionice</code>d down in priority, but when they gain focus they get <code>nice</code>d and <code>ionice</code>d back up to normal levels.</p> <p>I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so I was hoping someone had already developed an application that does this.</p>ClintonWed, 15 Feb 2012 22:47:44 -0500http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2784/prioritise-x-applications-with-focuspriorityhttp://linuxexchange.org/questions/505/is-there-a-graphical-ui-way-to-change-a-processapplication-priority<p>I am familiar with the nice and renice commands on the shell, but is there any graphical method (from the User Interface) to actually launch/run an application at a different priority level so to make it use more CPU than it would normally be allocated to it?<br /> Does the Completely Fair Scheduler introduced with kernel 2.6.23 makes this a moot point now?</p>pmariniWed, 12 May 2010 08:42:43 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/505/is-there-a-graphical-ui-way-to-change-a-processapplication-prioritykernelpriorityprocessapplicationcpu