Re: Support for SIGSTOP/SIGCONT in nice?

[Pádraig Brady]

Jim Meyering wrote:

>Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>Still, maybe not all programs have similar rate-limiting features, so
>>that this nice-extension may be useful anyway...
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>I agree.  Maybe even as a separate program, for when you start something
>important and somehow resource-intensive, so that you can regulate its
>impact after the fact (via some new tool with a --pid=PID option).
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I argued to hide all that in the kernel 3 years ago
so a seperate interface was not needed:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/11/10/64

Pádraig.