Sorry for the late reply. [Pietro Battiston] > Although no documentation is present in /usr/share/killer, I did get > from the description of the package that if I want to run a script > in background on a system where killer is been ran from a cron > script, I have two options: > a) install and use "condor" > b) increase the niceness of the process. > > However the second does not seem to work. Here is how I reproduce:
Increasing nice-level is supposed to work, yes. :) > 2) give the command "sudo -u someuser nice -n 1 sleep 100" I believe you lack one key information. The nice level must be greater than 9. The information is hidden in the manual page, killer(1): removeNiceJobs This function removes all jobs that have a nice value greater than 9. That is, they have a lower sceduling priority than the default (0). Thus, if you had used 'nice sleep 100' it would have worked, as the default for nice(1) is 10. Using '-n 1' do not raise the nice level enough to get killer to leave it alone. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org