-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-14 at 13:55 -0600, K.R. Foley wrote:
First, it is not renice what you are looking at, but ionice - from the manual:
Actually there is a renice program that sets the nice value of a program within the SCHED_OTHER scheduling policy / priority 0. You do have to be root though to decrease (increase priority) the nice value of a process, as it should be.
The program "renice" just does about the same as the program "nice", but using the PID. It just modifies the scheduling priority, but you can not change the scheduling class of a program using renice. They are different.
But! Some programs try to detect at start if they have realtime priorities... if they are given them later by the method described, it is already to late for them, they will not use the alternative algorithms designed for that case. I believe Xine does this.
So, yes, a method to give a group of programs realtime priority from the start would be interesting.
There is but it typically requires superuser privileges.
Ie, there is no method. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHYyBqtTMYHG2NR9URApY3AKCQaOQdxW92F+MSClqqQCdFPKIdLgCdFEOd wbpDdiGFsz+4qkHcFT6biA0= =BsbR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org