Bug 27077

Summary:	ebuild for verynice
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Amiel Martin <martina3>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	EBUILD
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	verynice-1.1 ebuild verynice ebuild digest and init script (files/verynice)

Description Amiel Martin 2003-08-21 13:11:55 UTC

VeryNice is a tool for dynamically adjusting the nice-level of processes under
UNIX-like operating systems. It can also be used to kill off runaway processes
and increase the priority of multimedia applications, while properly handling
both batch computation jobs and interactive applications with long periods of
high CPU usage.

Unlike most other process re-nice tools, VeryNice is not only capable of
lowering a CPU bound process's priority (raising the nice level), but it is also
capable of raising the priority back up when the process is no longer heavily
using the CPU. It is also configurable, so it can detect different users and
different programs and act accordingly. For example, it can be configured to
detect and kill certain programs (such as netscape) that have a tendency to die
with 100% cpu usage, but the program will only be killed under stringent
conditions so that it is very unlikely that it would be killed improperly.

Comment 1 Amiel Martin 2003-08-21 13:13:39 UTC

Created attachment 16442 [details]
verynice-1.1 ebuild

Comment 2 Amiel Martin 2003-08-21 13:15:14 UTC

Created attachment 16444 [details]
verynice ebuild digest and init script (files/verynice)

tar file including verynice ebuild digest and init script

Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-17 23:16:02 UTC

Added to CVS marked ~x86 for testing, etc.  Thanks for the bug report.

The ebuild was...verynice. <rimshot>