When I'm running Azureus it usually like to grab a half gig of VmRss and useing a gig and a half of VMSize. So naturally when I leave my comp and it lock it takes forever for it to respond alowing me unlock and to kill Az, it would be faster to just pull the plug and reboot.

I know that I can make the OS itself the biggest priority.

I'm just guessing that I need to renice a process and I'm thinking that it is X.

Never reniced a process so I'm looking for advice.


I'll deal with AZ later so I just want to know how "fix" the OS.

Erm, wouldn't you renice Azureus?

i.e. start it with
nice azureus

"man nice" tells you more.

Samsara
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Yeah but sometimes other programs slow it down too and I would willingly give it more power for the extra speed

Well, to increase priority for a process, you need to be root. So it's often easier to decrease priority for everything that doesn't need it. But if you have root access, the same command applies, just renice -n -5 [X11 process ID], for instance. The mnemonic is that you want X to be less "nice" to other processes, that's why you decrement the niceness (i.e. -5, not +5). Standard nicing does a +10, so you may want to try -10 if -5 doesn't have a sufficiently big effect. Be mindful of using large values (-19 and +20 are the limits afaik) because you can grind your system to a virtual halt that way.

Samsara
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Renicing X isn't going to affect Azureus very much. If you want to give Azuereus access to more resources then give it a low nice value with renice, if you want to stop it hogging system resources then renice it to a high nice value.