On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 10:18, Joachim B Haga wrote:
Peter Williams <peterw@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
It seems to me that much of this could be solved if the user *were*
allowed to lower nice values (down to 0).
[snip]
to 10 (normal) to 20. Negative values could still be root-only. So
why shouldn't this be possible? Because a greedy user in a
More importantly it would allow ordinary users to override root's
settings e.g. if (for whatever reason) the sysadmin decided to
And it's not a *security* concern, as long as the lower values are
still reserved.
I would say the benefit is very small (I mean: who has ever relied on
it?) compared to the difficulties created for users.
Under Linux, I can't say, but certainly on my old school machine (~10
years ago) all student accounts would run at +5, all staff accounts
would run at +0. This was handled by the login process, so re-logging in
would not help you at all....