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

[Con Kolivas]

Robert Shearman wrote:
> 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).

No, as renicing -ve is not going to help anyway.

Cheers,
Con
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