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

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