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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 2003 09:11:25 -0400
From:      "Craig Reyenga" <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca>
To:        <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Users and setpriority()
Message-ID:  <001301c2fe99$8c248450$0200000a@fireball>
References:  <000701c2fe98$f0cc4c40$0200000a@fireball>

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I am such a bonehead! I meant _BELOW_ zero!!

From: "Craig Reyenga" <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca>
> First on topic post!
>
> Currently, setpriority() doesn't allow non- uid 0 users to use a nice
value
> above 0. If you set "priority" in /etc/login.conf to a higher value, all
you
> are doing is making every stinking process on the system run at that value
> initially, which is a disaster. My question is: Is there, or will there be
a
> facility to allow certain non-root users to set higher/raise nice values?
> This would be a dream for desktop machines where there is essentially one
> user, because that user could have a non-zero uid, and control of process
> scheduling.
>
> -Craig

-Craig



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