[SLL] increasing thread priority

[Steve McCarthy]

See the man page for nice and renice.  Typically you use nice if you are
starting the app, and renice to adjust the priority of a process that is
already running.


On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Mathew D. Watson
<watson at visiongate3d.com>wrote:

> I have a machine vision camera (prosilica ge1650) that drops about 10% of
> the image frames when the acquisition software is run by me and drops 0%
> when run as root. Prosilica says this happens because threads in their
> software compete with other applications when run by a regular user.
>
> What is the best way to increase the priority of this application? One way
> I can think of is set uid root,  but running as root makes me nervous.
>
> Mat
>
>


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