Re: apps segfaulting on FreeBSD 8.0

[Germán Arias]

El dom, 21-03-2010 a las 11:32 -0700, James Mahoney escribió:

> >I'm on FreeBSD 7.2. Gpbs has always been a little more troublesome on 
> >FreeBSD than on linux, but it got worse.
> 
> Yes.  Even after starting it from .xinitrc, gpbs seems incredibly slow.  
> Pasting after a cut or copy is the only operation that works smoothly. 
> Selecting text in order to cut or copy basically "pauses" a program (no other
> input is registered) for several seconds before the cut and copy options light
> up in the menu.  Actually cutting or copying takes another few seconds, again 
> generally pausing the program.  Can anything be done?
> 

One solution is change the priority of gpbs process, with something like
(you need do it as root, and maybe on BSD is different)

        gpbspid=`ps -C gpbs -o pid=`
        renice -5 $gpbspid

To default gpbs is started with priority 0, but you can change it to a
negative priority (-1, -2, ... -15) to make it more faster. Of course,
you can do this with a script. But this script needs root permission to
execute.