Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] O(1) Entitlement Based Scheduler
From: Paul Wagland <paul@wagland.net>
To: Joachim B Haga <c.j.b.haga@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Peter Williams <peterw@aurema.com>, Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 10:18, Joachim B Haga wrote:
> Peter Williams <peterw@aurema.com> 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....

Cheers,
Paul

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