Several months back there was a Debconf question adjusting the Nice value of X, but I haven't seen it lately. Should I expect SID's X with ATI's propritary drivers with a Radeon 9700 to use (a) low resources relative to a big compile job in an X-terminal or (b) moderate resources. I checked top and XFree86 was the #2 process while cpp was #1. My CPU was pegged and the % CPU for Xfree86 was usually < 5%, but my computer "feels" faster outside of X -- is that perception totally false? Should I tweak the nice value? Please reply directly, I'm not on list.
