Changing the conditions of a launched process

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 11:16 -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:

> Certain of my startup tasks (specifically the Xorg server and gdm), I 
> wish to run with a negative nice value.  I'm trying to get some 
> responsiveness out of a system with less core than it probably wants 
> (256MiB).
> 
> Under the original Sys-V init system, I can parameterize 
> start-stop-daemon.  However, in the current Ubuntu version, gdm has been 
> converted and the /etc/init.d/gdm is now simply a symlink to 
> /usr/lib/upstart-job.  At that point, I'm pretty much lost.
> 
You can edit the /etc/init/gdm.conf file, in this case adding "nice
VALUE" to it somewhere.

> I'm sure the parametrization of jobs is recorded somewhere, but upstart 
> doesn't seem to come with much documentation.
> 
Did you even try "man upstart" ?

Scott
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