Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2022 April 5

= April 5 =

ionice and drop permissions
What's the proper way to start a process ionice'd as realtime but with the resulting process starting as a specific normal user instead of as root? 96.232.39.129 (talk) 00:39, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The  program affects scheduling of I/O in Linux. See the Linux General Commands Manual  . Philvoids (talk) 17:31, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Where we read "Realtime [...] This scheduling class is not permitted for an ordinary (i.e., non-root) user." Card Zero  (talk) 18:09, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

will run  with real-time IO as user   LongHairedFop (talk) 18:36, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Exactly what I was looking for, thanks. 96.232.39.129 (talk) 10:31, 7 April 2022 (UTC)