* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, i guess this has little to do with X. I think in your scenario > it might have been smarter to either stop, or to renice the workloads > that took away CPU power from others to _positive_ nice levels. > Negative nice levels can indeed be dangerous.
btw., was X itself at nice 0 or nice -10 when the lockup happened? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/