Re: [process priority] Questions about re/nice

[belbo <andrea.ballatore@gmail.com>]

Mike McCarty wrote:
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> $ alias mplayer="nice -n -20 /usr/local/bin/mplayer"
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> Or a script.
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> As to whether this may cause prolems with starving other processes,
> I don't know. Certainly, if possible, another solution is preferable.
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> Mike

I've already considered this solution, but it doesn't work, because of root
permissions needed: if I run this command as a normal user, here's the result:

$ nice -n -20 /usr/local/bin/mplayer
nice: cannot set priority: Permission denied

I want to always run the process with maximum priority as normal user.

Thanks,
Bye