Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-08 Thread Nikolaus Schulz
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 02 août 2006 à 23:15 +0200, Bart Martens a écrit : Instead of editing the scripts in /etc/init.d to give daemons the nicelevel you want (and get prompted at every package update because these files are conffiles) you can just run reniced once a day.

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-08 Thread Roland Mas
Nikolaus Schulz, 2006-08-08 11:50:08 +0200 : ... which is something I'd expect to find in ~/bin, but not as the single functionality of a Debian package. moreutils then? Roland. -- Roland Mas If you're ever confused as to which mode you're in, keep entering the escape key until vi beeps at

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-06 Thread Christian Garbs
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:52:50PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Christian Garbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.03.1436 +0100]: reniced does not wait for new processes to act on them. It is designed to be run once a day and affect the processes running in that moment. Then

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-04 Thread Christian Garbs
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:52:50PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Christian Garbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.03.1436 +0100]: reniced does not wait for new processes to act on them. It is designed to be run once a day and affect the processes running in that moment. Then don't

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Christian Garbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.04.0038 +0100]: To my surprise the description line of my package is quite exact: renice running processes based on regular expressions It clearly says running and not new or spawning. I don't think it's clear in any way. Is the naming

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-04 Thread Miles Bader
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the naming so much of an issue? (I always confuse kernel-threads and KDE applications because both start with k) Well, *d suggests it's a permanently running programme, which yours is not. So I'd say, yes. You could call it rerenice (= regexp

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Clément Stenac
Of course, the problem is that gcc spawns many processes, and if reniced only takes a little while to react to a new gcc process, the children won't be reniced. If I understand correctly the description, reniced is not actually a daemon but a program that you run from time to time, so not

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Christian Garbs
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:08:48AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 02 août 2006 à 23:15 +0200, Bart Martens a écrit : Instead of editing the scripts in /etc/init.d to give daemons the nicelevel you want (and get prompted at every package update because these files are

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Christian Garbs
Wesley J. Landaker wrote: Wow, that sounds like an annoying bug just waiting to get reported! (Having to edit scripts in /etc/init.d is an exceptionally bad way to configure a daemon.) This is about daemons that are not designed to be configured in that way. The easiest solution was to just

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Christian Garbs
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.02.2308 +0100]: Out of curiosity, what real-life uses does this tool have? Daemons don't need to be reniced, so there must be something else. reniced /(g(cc|++)|c(c|++))/ 15 or whatever the syntax is. I often

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Christian Garbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.03.1436 +0100]: reniced does not wait for new processes to act on them. It is designed to be run once a day and affect the processes running in that moment. Then don't call it renice*d*, please. -- Please do not send copies of list mail

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Otavio Salvador
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also sprach Christian Garbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.03.1436 +0100]: reniced does not wait for new processes to act on them. It is designed to be run once a day and affect the processes running in that moment. Then don't call it renice*d*,

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:52:50PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Christian Garbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.03.1436 +0100]: reniced does not wait for new processes to act on them. It is designed to be run once a day and affect the processes running in that moment. Then don't

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:26:24PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: reniced /(g(cc|++)|c(c|++))/ 15 How about ``pgrep '(g(cc|\+\+)|c(c|\+\+))' | xargs renice 15''? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 02 août 2006 à 23:15 +0200, Bart Martens a écrit : Instead of editing the scripts in /etc/init.d to give daemons the nicelevel you want (and get prompted at every package update because these files are conffiles) you can just run

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-02 Thread Nacho Barrientos Arias
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:28:16 +0200 Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Bart, * Package name: reniced Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Christian Garbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-02 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 23:04 +0200, Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote: Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:28:16 +0200 Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Bart, * Package name: reniced Version : 1.5

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-02 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 15:15, Bart Martens wrote: Instead of editing the scripts in /etc/init.d to give daemons the nicelevel you want (and get prompted at every package update because these files are conffiles) you can just run reniced once a day. Wow, that sounds like an annoying bug

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 02 août 2006 à 23:15 +0200, Bart Martens a écrit : Instead of editing the scripts in /etc/init.d to give daemons the nicelevel you want (and get prompted at every package update because these files are conffiles) you can just run reniced once a day. Out of curiosity, what

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.02.2308 +0100]: Out of curiosity, what real-life uses does this tool have? Daemons don't need to be reniced, so there must be something else. reniced /(g(cc|++)|c(c|++))/ 15 or whatever the syntax is. I often wanted to have such a feature