xlock too slow to wake up

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 23:02 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 18/05/12 22:29, oxy wrote:
> > ...
> > power management says: do not suspend
> >
> > It becomes only slow overnight. It i lock and perss enter
> > i have an immediate response. Cannt we by default set
> > xlock to highest priority? I could do it myself, but better
> > having it for all ...
> 
> As far a I am aware, every task can have its priority changed - moved up 
> or down. Look at the documentation on how to do it.

Unless the system is very busy doing something when you come in in the
morning I seriously doubt that it's an issue with priority, or that
changing the priority will have any impact.  Priority only helps if
there's contention.  If the machine is idle (just swapped out) there's
no contention and priority settings won't make any difference.

If they system IS very busy when you arrive at work you might want to
adjust the times at which overnight bookkeeping functions run, so they
end before you get into work.  If you work odd hours (for example you
start at 4am or something) you may run into this.