[gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's supposed to run a dnet-client. Then I've got a laptop (64bit Celeron, single core) on which I play those video

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Feb 2008, at 11:01, Florian Philipp wrote: ... I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. ... ... My problem is: Neither of them can handle recording/playing video while

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 11:29 +, Stroller wrote: On 24 Feb 2008, at 11:01, Florian Philipp wrote: ... I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. ... ... My problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's supposed to run a dnet-client. Then I've got a laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 17:45 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Since nobody seems to have an idea, maybe someone can tell me how I allow processes with real-time priority (nice -n -20) to be started by an ordinary user? Of course I'm aware of sudo but I don't want a simple media encoder to have