Comment #5 on issue 27798 by craig.schlenter: Reduce niceness on background tabs http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=27798
[ gmatht is the reporter of the ubuntu bug btw. ] I think that ulimit returns the raw value of getrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE ...) and the actual nice ceiling is 20 - rlim_currrent so if ulimit -e is reporting 20 then your allowable ceiling is indeed a nice level of 0. Since chromium checks getrlimit in base/process_linux.cc (introduced in r30470) to renice background tabs, I suspect this should already be working out of the box on "Ubuntu 9.04" and whatever other versions of ubuntu are allowing this. Can someone on an appropriate machine check if their inactive renderer processes are actually niced please? It's working for me btw. but on my Fedora box I had to fiddle /etc/security/limits.conf as ulimit -e normally reports 0 (i.e. default is that you can't raise process priorities at all). Since the kernel and limits.conf appear unchanged, I wonder if ubuntu has modified the pam package to change the defaults? -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings -- Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs
