* 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
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