[ck] Re: Threading issues? [ck-request@vds.kolivas.org: ck Digest, Vol 3, Issue 16]

[Robert Shearman]

Mike Hearn wrote:

>> I wouldn't trust it. An app just misbehaving can trash important 
>> parts of your filesystem. Suid root is just a bad idea, windows being 
>> linux aware or not. Just for mild amusement I think someone being 
>> funky got a windows virus to work under wine if I recall correctly.
>
> Anyway, interesting as this is, if we can't or shouldn't renice apps 
> to a higher priority then we're back at square one. Are there any 
> recommended ways of debugging scheduling problems Con, any tools we 
> can use, or is it all down to guesswork and printf() timings?


We could always ship a custom version of renice that could be installed 
suid root, which would only allow changing the priorities of wine 
processes and/or up to a certain priority limit (preferably equivalent 
to Windows).

Rob