[1680] in SIPB bug reports
xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon Feb 18 20:57:50 1991
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 91 20:57:30 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: John Carr's message of Tue, 12 Feb 91 17:48:10 EST <9102122248.AA10163@Achates.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 91 17:48:10 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
A suggestion: xscreensaver should nice itself. I am doing this manually
now, because I often leave compute-intensize jobs running and xscreensaver
uses too much CPU.
This seems like a violation of the Unix philosophy to write separate
utilities to do separate jobs. The reason there's a "nice" command is
to allow you to run a program at a different nice level. I see no
reason for xscreensaver to have built-in code to do nice'ing when
there is already a command you can use to nice it, especially since
(at higher nice values) there is a chance that xscreensaver will fall
behind the X server and do bad things.
jik
