[mythtv-users] Giving mythfrontend a higher priority

Owen Townend owen.townend at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 07:37:06 UTC 2008


2008/10/3 Robert <RobertCL at iname.com>:
> On Fri, October 3, 2008 4:34 am, Bobby Gill wrote:
>> I use mythfrontend on one monitor in a dual monitor setup and am wondering
>> how to give it a higher priority/lower nice level as I usually am working
>> on
>> a doc/surfing/whatever on the other monitor and sometimes the task causes
>> playback in mythfrontend to stutter/pause briefly (definitely not common
>> but
>> happens).
>
> You could just "renice" it - something like:
>
> sudo renice -20 `pidof mythfrontend`
[snip]

You could also create a launcher/shortcut for 'gksudo nice -n -10
mythfrontend' which should do the trick.

cheers,
Owen.


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