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From: Matt Randolph <mattr@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns)
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:17:19
Message-Id: 4330A63B.70108@erols.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns) by Tres Melton
1 Tres Melton wrote:
2
3 >On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 20:23 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>On Tuesday 20 September 2005 19:47, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>>I do this:
10 >>>alias emerge='sudo schedtool -B -e /usr/bin/emerge'
11 >>>
12 >>>Obviously the sudo is unnecessary if you're root. You can use similar
13 >>>aliases to run things as SCHED_ISO, which I do for mplayer, for example.
14 >>>
15 >>>
16 >>Or, more easilly, set the nicelevel to -19 (the lowest) which also amounts to
17 >>batch scheduling. Nicelevel -19 is treated as batch by default by the 2.6
18 >>kernel.
19 >>
20 >>
21 >
22 >Erm, isn't that backwards? The lowest priority is 20. The highest is
23 >-19. You have to be root for any priority < 0.
24 >
25 >
26 >
27 >>Paul
28 >>
29 >>
30 >>
31
32 I would guess that Paul used the word "lowest" in a strictly numerical
33 sense, rather than priority-wise. By the way, my nice has a range of
34 -20 to 19.
35
36 Matt
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns) Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>