On Wednesday 19 December 2007 23:51:42 Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 17 December 2007 19:58:18 JP Rosevear wrote:
Beagle already does nice itself and employ strategies for reducing work when the CPU is not idle. However I/O is a problem and non-root processes can't change their own I/O priority iirc.
Actually, they can. "All" they need is CAP_SYS_ADMIN
A bit silly to not allow a process to downgrade its own priority, with nice I
All processes can downgrade their own priority.
Not I/O priority, no.
Nice with positive (lower priority) values is available to all processes. Only negative (higher priority) values need the root user ID.
Yes, that's what I said. Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org