Seems that starting the daemon with that nice level is filly ignored by the client application, eg. in my case einstein@home, b/c the process ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/einstein_S5R4_6.02_i686-pc-linux-gnu_2 runs always with nice level 19. Reproducible: Always n22 ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25.19 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25.19 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.muntinternet.net/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j 2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bzip2 cairo cddb cli cracklib crypt css cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread dynamicplugin encode exif fam fastbuild fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk hyphenation iconv ipv6 isdnlog jai java javascript jimi joystick jpeg kde logrotate mad mbox midi mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python readline real reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl subversion svg sysfs tcpd tk truetype unicode userlocales visualization vorbis wav wifi win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xcomposite xml xorg xpm zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Is NICELEVEL ignored entirely or is a similar (but actually used) configuration variable set elsewhere?
Ah, the boinc itself runs under the given nice level (I chanegd it temporary to 10), however the _real_ boinc application itself runs with 19 : tfoerste@n22 ~ $ ps -efla | grep -e boinc -e PPID F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD 4 S boinc 6013 1 0 81 10 - 1507 - 21:10 ? 00:00:02 /usr/bin/boinc_client 0 R boinc 6020 6013 89 99 19 - 20855 - 21:10 ? 00:18:28 ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/einstein_S5R4_6.02_i686-pc-linux-gnu_2 --method=0 --Freq=993.959007333 --FreqBand=0.0158775408781 --dFreq=6.71056161393e-06 --f1dot=-3
# ChangeLog for sci-misc/boinc # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sci-misc/boinc/ChangeLog,v 1.45 2009/01/02 20:40:21 cryos Exp $ 02 Jan 2009; Marcus D. Hanwell <cryos@gentoo.org> metadata.xml: Removed myself as maintainer.
Would like to solve this issue for current version 6.4 rather than for the old version : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-747140-highlight-.html
Reopening per request. I will have to look on it at some time but no promises (at all i am mainly kde dev, give me working solution and i will patch package tho :])
current version works fine
