Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Tres Melton <tres@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:07:38
Message-Id: 1127257571.6208.45.camel@thor.tres.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns) by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 20:23 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 19:47, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
3 > >
4 > > I do this:
5 > > alias emerge='sudo schedtool -B -e /usr/bin/emerge'
6 > >
7 > > Obviously the sudo is unnecessary if you're root. You can use similar
8 > > aliases to run things as SCHED_ISO, which I do for mplayer, for example.
9 >
10 > Or, more easilly, set the nicelevel to -19 (the lowest) which also amounts to
11 > batch scheduling. Nicelevel -19 is treated as batch by default by the 2.6
12 > kernel.
13
14 Erm, isn't that backwards? The lowest priority is 20. The highest is
15 -19. You have to be root for any priority < 0.
16
17 > Paul
18 >
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20 Tres Melton
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns) Matt Randolph <mattr@×××××.com>