All my applications seem to be running at nice of 19 except bash and daemons which are running at 0. My understanding is that the default nice value is either 0 or 10 (forget which) but not 19.
Ran search in /etc/sysconfig/ editor and no results for “nice” and looked at the bashrc files and again no lines contain “nice”.
Any ideas? Pretty darn sure it wasn’t always this way, but no idea when it changed.
11.3 and kde4.6
thanks,
Weird, what about your .profile and .bashrc?
I guess that makes you a very nice person. 
no .profile, .bashrc fine as is bashrc.local
update:
This is for all apps, not just kde (gnome, java, other).
Apps started from konsole window are started at nice of 0, which is what bash runs at
Restarted kde and the same (restarted by way of init 1, intit 5 as I just didn’t want to reboot).
Tried as second user and same.
On 2011-02-27 14:06, google01103 wrote:
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> update:
>
> This is for all apps, not just kde (gnome, java, other).
I would look for changed files in /etc, including sysconfig. Probably one
of them tells the default nice value (19 is the maximum).
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
used kfind to find all occurrences of nice in /etc and found nothing that could do this (of course I could have missed it but …)
On 2011-02-27 14:06, google01103 wrote:
> This is for all apps, not just kde (gnome, java, other).
>
> Apps started from konsole window are started at nice of 0, which is
> what bash runs at
>
> Restarted kde and the same (restarted by way of init 1, intit 5 as I
> just didn’t want to reboot).
>
> Tried as second user and same.
Could you post the output of ‘ps -eo pid,ppid,user,nice,command’?
It might be helpful to see what processes have niceness of 19…
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mrg
results of ‘ps -eo pid,ppid,user,nice,command’, user account only
2147 9462 user 0 ps -eo pid,ppid,user,nice,command
2148 9462 user 0 /bin/bash
3649 1 user 0 /usr/lib/gam_server
9158 9135 user 0 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde
9211 9158 user 0 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/bash /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
9289 1 user 0 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
9290 1 user 0 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
9298 1 user 19 kdeinit4: kdeinit4 Running...
9299 9298 user 19 kdeinit4: klauncher [kdeinit] --fd=9
9301 1 user 19 kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]
9305 1 user 19 kdeinit4: kglobalaccel [kdeinit]
9307 1 user 19 kdeinit4: kwalletd [kdeinit]
9311 9158 user 0 kwrapper4 ksmserver
9312 9298 user 19 kdeinit4: ksmserver [kdeinit]
9314 9312 user 19 kwin -session 10d8dc7263000129778960600000059360000_1297813886_55766
9321 1 user 19 /usr/bin/kactivitymanagerd
9325 1 user 19 /usr/bin/knotify4
9328 1 user 19 kdeinit4: krunner [kdeinit]
9329 1 user 19 kdeinit4: plasma-desktop [kdeinit]
9334 1 user 19 /usr/bin/lancelot
9337 1 user 0 /usr/bin/akonadi_control
9340 9337 user 0 akonadiserver
9342 9340 user 0 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/home/user/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf --datadir=/home/user/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ --socket=/home/user/.local/share/akonadi/socket-circus/mysql.socket
9357 9337 user 0 /usr/bin/akonadi_maildir_resource --identifier akonadi_maildir_resource_0
9359 9337 user 0 /usr/bin/akonadi_maildispatcher_agent --identifier akonadi_maildispatcher_agent
9360 9337 user 0 /usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_calendar_feeder --identifier akonadi_nepomuk_calendar_feeder
9361 9337 user 0 /usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_contact_feeder --identifier akonadi_nepomuk_contact_feeder
9378 1 user 0 /usr/bin/nepomukserver
9392 1 user 0 /usr/bin/kuiserver
9394 9329 user 19 ksysguardd
9403 1 user 19 kdeinit4: kaccess [kdeinit]
9415 9298 user 19 kdeinit4: kio_http_cache_cleaner [kdeinit]
9425 1 user 19 /usr/bin/konversation -session 10d8dc7263000129778964600000059360015_1297813882_823512
9427 1 user 19 kdeinit4: kmix [kdeinit] -session 10d8dc7263000129778964900000059360018_1297813882_841260
9432 1 user 19 /usr/bin/kalarm -session 10d8dc7263000129778967900000059360022_1297813882_788439
9433 9298 user 19 /usr/bin/gkrellm --sm-client-id 10d8dc7263000129778974000000059360025
9445 1 user 19 kdeinit4: konsole [kdeinit] -session 10d8dc7263000129779027600000059360034_1297813882_788566
9446 9298 user 19 kdeinit4: kate [kdeinit] -session 10d8dc7263000129779604500000059360038_1297813882_788652
9448 1 user 19 kdeinit4: dolphin [kdeinit] -session 10d8dc7263000129779903400000059360056_1297813882_788729
9449 9298 user 19 /usr/bin/clementine -session 10d8dc7263000129780372800000059360061_1297813882_789102
9451 9445 user 0 /bin/bash
9462 9445 user 0 /bin/bash
9499 1 user 0 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor
9501 1 user 0 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd
9509 1 user 0 /usr/lib/gvfs//gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/user/.gvfs
9512 1 user 0 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
9517 1 user 0 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
9742 9298 user 19 /usr/bin/kpat -session 10d8dc7263000129781299900000059360075_1297813882_788456
9743 9298 user 19 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/fusion-icon
9748 9298 user 19 pan
9750 9298 user 19 /usr/bin/freepopsd
9752 1 user 19 /usr/local/bin/recollindex -m
9763 9298 user 19 python /usr/bin/printer-applet
9767 1 user 19 /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
9770 1 user 19 kdeinit4: klipper [kdeinit]
13140 9298 user 19 /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kdesu -c yast --gtk sw_single
13142 1 user 19 /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kdesud
13156 13142 user 19 /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kdesud
16086 9298 user 19 kdeinit4: ksysguard [kdeinit]
16088 16086 user 19 ksysguardd
26517 9298 user 19 /usr/lib/opera/opera
That output sure looks suspiciously all processes related to KDE so I might suspect the KDE version you’re running. Maybe anyone else running later KDE versions can also post the top 10 lines or so of TOP (nice values are listed).
Am running 11.3/KDE 4.4.4 and as noted practically everything has a NICE value of zero (absolute neutral). I do believe that for Workstations that re-nicing desktop app processes to somewhere between -15 and -19 should be beneficial, I myself sometimes find I have to “promote” a specified application to -20 (that’s the maximum, not -19). Note that a value of -19 still allows one to configura an incremental higher priority.
Tony
On 2011-02-27 19:11, mrg wrote:
> Could you post the output of ‘ps -eo pid,ppid,user,nice,command’?
> It might be helpful to see what processes have niceness of 19…
With “-f” you should see the parent.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
On 2011-02-27 16:36, google01103 wrote:
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> robin_listas;2295947 Wrote:
>> I would look for changed files in /etc, including sysconfig. Probably
>> one of them tells the default nice value (19 is the maximum).
> used kfind to find all occurrences of nice in /etc and found nothing
> that could do this (of course I could have missed it but …)
It might not use the word “nice”. Look manually into likely files.
But seeing that it is only kde related programs, I think that the parent
process is running nice for some reason.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
ppid shows parent process id
parent of all apps with nice of 19 appears to be variants of kdeinit4 (kdeinit4: kdeinit4 , kdeinit4: plasma-desktop, etc …)
update: posted a bug to KDE bugzilla https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267276
should I post to Novell bugzilla also?
On 2011-02-27 23:06, google01103 wrote:
> should I post to Novell bugzilla also?
As you installed from Novell, obviously. I almost never report upstream.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
RESOLVED
caused by a new version of Recoll indexer which was run in autostart - developer notified and submitted bug closed