On Wednesday 19 December 2007 23:51:42 Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Anders Johansson wrote: > > 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 > > All processes can downgrade their own priority.
Not I/O priority, no. > Nice with positive (lower priority) values is > available to all processes. Only negative > (higher priority) values need the root user ID. Yes, that's what I said. Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
