On Wednesday 21 September 2005 02:15, Matt Randolph wrote: > Tres Melton wrote: > >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 > > I would guess that Paul used the word "lowest" in a strictly numerical > sense, rather than priority-wise. By the way, my nice has a range of > -20 to 19.
Nah, I made a mistake between -19 and 19. Of course it should be 19. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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