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On Wednesday 21 September 2005 02:15, Matt Randolph wrote: |
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> Tres Melton wrote: |
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> >On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 20:23 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> >>On Tuesday 20 September 2005 19:47, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: |
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> >>>I do this: |
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> >>>alias emerge='sudo schedtool -B -e /usr/bin/emerge' |
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> >>> |
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> >>>Obviously the sudo is unnecessary if you're root. You can use |
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> >>> similar aliases to run things as SCHED_ISO, which I do for mplayer, |
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> >>> for example. |
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> >> |
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> >>Or, more easilly, set the nicelevel to -19 (the lowest) which also |
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> >> amounts to batch scheduling. Nicelevel -19 is treated as batch by |
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> >> default by the 2.6 kernel. |
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> > |
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> >Erm, isn't that backwards? The lowest priority is 20. The highest is |
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> >-19. You have to be root for any priority < 0. |
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> > |
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> >>Paul |
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> I would guess that Paul used the word "lowest" in a strictly numerical |
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> sense, rather than priority-wise. By the way, my nice has a range of |
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> -20 to 19. |
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Nah, I made a mistake between -19 and 19. Of course it should be 19. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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