>  nice-ing the slave process at startup would be the way to do it, right?

Yup. We run the twisted buildslaves under 'nice', and it works pretty well.
It also reveals problems in tests that use absolute timeouts which fail when
the test runs slower than the author thought it was supposed to.

cheers,
 -Brian
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