Anthony D. Baye <Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote:
> In linux the default priority for any given user-initiated process is 0.  Which
> means that when I run povray, its cpu priority is dead last.  I've gotten in the
> habit of running sudo top alongside so that I can renice the process to -20, but
> this only affects the main thread as far as I can tell.  All child threads have
> a priority of 0.

> Is there a way to configure linux so that povray and all of its child threads
> are given top priority?

Unless you have something CPU-heavy running at the same time, it won't
make any difference. Even if you ran it at nice 20 it probably won't
make any difference (unless you run something else that's CPU-heavy
at the same time).

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                                                          - Warp

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