On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 20:23 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 19:47, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > > > > I do this: > > alias emerge='sudo schedtool -B -e /usr/bin/emerge' > > > > Obviously the sudo is unnecessary if you're root. You can use similar > > aliases to run things as SCHED_ISO, which I do for mplayer, for example. > > Or, more easilly, set the nicelevel to -19 (the lowest) which also amounts to > batch scheduling. Nicelevel -19 is treated as batch by default by the 2.6 > kernel.
Erm, isn't that backwards? The lowest priority is 20. The highest is -19. You have to be root for any priority < 0. > Paul > -- Tres Melton IRC & Gentoo: RiverRat -- [email protected] mailing list
