On Monday 27 March 2006 06:51, Pat Double wrote: > Forgive me if this has already been discussed. > > Kernel 2.6.16 has a new scheduling priority SCHED_IDLEPRIO. Currently > beagled attempts to run some things using "ionice" but this requires root > priviledges. SCHED_IDLEPRIO can be set by the user. > > Would it be acceptable to change beagled to use this instead of ionice when > a 2.6.16 kernel is detected? How about beagled setting itself to this > priority when started? OK, bad form replying to myself, but I was mistaken. It is the ck patchset that has SCHED_IDLEPRIO. Still, I think it would be worthwhile to investigate this. The patchset is popular. -- Pat Double, pat patdouble com "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
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