[Systems] buildslave4.sugarlabs.org

[David Farning]

2009/3/18 Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-systems at silbe.org>:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:21:24AM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>
>> Does nice apply when build-bot spawns sugar-jhbuild using exec?
>
> Niceness (process priority) is inherited. In the past, you couldn't raise
> priority once it had been lowered (with the usual exception of root /
> CAP_SYS_NICE). Since Linux 2.6.12 it can also be raised up to RLIMIT_NICE
> (ulimit -e) again, but only explicitly.
>
>> Every time build-bot builds a package it spawns a new instance of
>> sugar-jhbuild.
>
> Doesn't this spawn happen on the slave anyway? For sugar-jhbuild to run with
> low priority, the slaves need to execute the bot with nice, changing
> priority on the master won't have any effect.

The calls happen in ./jhbuild/buildbot/steps.py

It would seem that you have a much stronger understanding on processes
they I do:)

david


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