Granting non-admin users privileges
Is there some way to allow non-adminstrative users particular privileges? In particular, I would like to grant users the right to lower the priority of their processes without granting them the right to do anything else (in particular dig through my files). (By lower priority I mean set it to a lower number so that it gets more processor time; I know they can already give it less processor time with renice.) I vaguely remember reading someplace that there are ways to more finely control privileges but I don't remember the details.
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IME it's not that important to mess with the priority. On a single user system that's not running anything the process that wants the CPU gets it. Setting the priority higher isn't going to move you from 95& to 99%.
It appears that I drop somewhat fewer frames when I run some animations I need to do for work at -20 rather than 0. Given that that is what I would expect, I haven't tested carefully (e.g., made sure that network activity was equated across tests). Maybe I should.