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Bug#746255: ITP: verynice -- nice(1)-like utility to throttle long running processes



On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 16:21 +0200, Radovan Garabík wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Radovan Garabík" <garabik@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>
> 
> * Package name    : verynice
>   Version         : 0.1
>   Upstream Author : Radovan Garabík <garabik@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>
> * URL             : http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/verynice/
> * License         : GPL v2 or more
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : nice(1)-like utility to throttle long running processes
> 
> An utility to throttle long running processes beyond what can be
> achieved by nice(1). This is done by periodically suspending and
> resuming the process and its child proceses.

This really doesn't seem like a good idea.  You can use scheduler
cgroups to do this sort of bandwidth limitation instead.

Ben.

> I am the upstream author as well, the program is already packages (at
> the above address).
> 
> 

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Q.  Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy?
A.  I don't know and I couldn't care less.

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