On Wednesday 19 December 2007 16:42, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2007-12-19 at 16:29 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Unfortunately, that's right. You need to be root to increase and even decrease I/O priority using program ionice.
How odd. Thankfully, I'm Lord and Master of my machines!
So am I, but I don't want to run apps as root.
Actually, that's not necessary. You can always become root for the purpose of exercising privileged operations and then go back to being a "regular" user to carry out everyday tasks. E.g.: su root -c 'ionice -c 3 su nonRootUser -c "ultimate command"' Or, if you're already root: ionice -c 3 su nonRootUser -c "ultimate command"
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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