Re: Changing process priority
I created a new KDE System Guard link that runs as root so I could change the
priority to whatever I want it to. Works very well!
Ronald
On Thursday 27 February 2003 04:46, Seneca wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:30:26PM +0000, Rodrigo Sobrinho wrote:
> > well, when I logged at non super-user, I can not alter the priority of
> > my process to negative number. Deny permission for me
> >
> > sobrinho@hercules:~$ nice -n -1 kedit
> > nice: n?o consigo alterar prioridade: Permiss?o negada
> >
> > why?
>
> An exerpt from renice(1):
>
> Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of
> processes they own, and can only monotonically increase their ``nice
> value'' within the range 0 to PRIO_MAX (20). (This prevents
> overriding administrative fiats.) The super-user may alter the
> priority of any process and set the priority to any value in the range
> PRIO_MIN (-20) to PRIO_MAX. Useful priorities are: 20 (the affected
> processes will run only when nothing else in the system wants to), 0
> (the ``base'' scheduling priority), anything negative (to make things
> go very fast).
>
> --
> Seneca
> seneca-cunningham@rogers.com
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