On Monday 17 December 2007 19:58:18 JP Rosevear wrote: > Beagle already does nice itself and employ strategies for reducing work > when the CPU is not idle. However I/O is a problem and non-root > processes can't change their own I/O priority iirc.
Actually, they can. "All" they need is CAP_SYS_ADMIN A bit silly to not allow a process to downgrade its own priority, with nice I can set myself to absolute rock bottom. Even sillier is it to have the capability baked in with some real admin capabilities. It should be more fine grained But what beagle could do is start as root (or CAP_SYS_ADMIN), run ioprio_set(), then immediately drop root perms. Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
