tags 680628 pending kthxbye > > Ulatency is a daemon that controls how the Linux kernel will spend it's > > Surely the daemon's name is "ulatencyd", not "ulatency"? Whereas the > expansion is "the userspace latency daemon"...
That's what upstream uses, but yes, "ulatencyd" sounds better. > > resources on the running processes. It uses dynamic cgroups to give the > > kernel hints and limitations on processes. > > This is just subtly awkward. Does it mean "to give it hints, and to > give it limitations on processes" or "to give it hints-and-limitations > on processes"? I don't see the difference. > And either way, what exactly does it mean to give something limitations on > processes? "limitations on processes' resources consumption". > (I'm not sure what distinction it is trying to make between rules and > code, but never mind that for now.) It means that the scheduler itself is written in Lua and you can either write rules for the default one, modify its code or write a new one altogether. > > This package provides a command-line/qt4 client for the ulatencyd daemon. > > Canonical capitalisation: s/qt4/Qt4/. But it's not one switchable > CLI/GUI client, it's one of each: No, it is a *single* client, that provides two different interfaces. Anyway, I've applied a slightly modifed version of your patch (see [0]). Let me know if you find other problems. Cheers [0] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ulatencyd.git;a=commitdiff;h=81ffa1432 -- perl -E '$_=q;$/= @{[@_]};and s;\S+;<inidehG ordnasselA>;eg;say~~reverse'
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