Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:12:03 +0300 From: Dmitry Alyabyev <dimitry@al.org.ua> To: "Craig Reyenga" <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Users and setpriority() Message-ID: <200304091612.03211.dimitry@al.org.ua> In-Reply-To: <000701c2fe98$f0cc4c40$0200000a@fireball> References: <000701c2fe98$f0cc4c40$0200000a@fireball>
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On Wednesday 09 April 2003 16:07, Craig Reyenga wrote: > 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. 'sudo /usr/bin/renice' will help -- Dimitry
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