Linux is great. It always gives me an extra year out of hardware that would otherwise get passed on to the family. But one thing that annoys me is nice and process priorities.

Running big cpu-bound jobs, I often make use of nice to shunt the priority to 19. But even with this lowest priority, my heavy-duty jobs get in the way of regular use of my platform. What I'd like to see is a nice 30 or a nice 300 or let's really go to town and have a nice 3000! :-) This is a way of saying, I really don't want this process consuming resources until I'm not around. "Go use at or cron" you'll probably say. But that's missing the point. I don't know when I'm going to be around. The closest solutions so far are the number-crunching screensavers (like SETI). Ok so I can run my bigs jobs as a screensaver, but shouldn't this kind of resource management be part of the kernel?

I have self-compiled 2.6.10 kernel

On on start I get some errors:

1) Sometimes I recieve: "module ide_detect unable to load". I really can't find to what kernel option this module belongs..

2) In kernel log: "vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6"

Help me to solve this
Thanks

I keep trying to post a blog entry or a comment to today's poll and they don't go through. As for my blog, it goes "Your blog entry was posted successfully\n\nACCESS DENIED you don't have authorization to view this page" and doesn't post the entry.

KernelTrap is currently being upgraded to Drupal 4.5. Some functionality will be temporarily missing. For example, the hacker journals are currently disabled until I get the old module working with the new version of Drupal, hopefully within the next few days.

If you notice any regressions in the functionality of this website, please leave a comment to be sure I'm aware of it. I rushed the upgrade more than I wanted to thanks to a sudden surge of comment spam. I've written a Drupal module to deal with this, but the most effective features I only added to the 4.5 version. Three days ago this site had seen less than 100 spam comments. This weekend alone I've seen over 1000.

I had an idea which I believe would help all users if implemented in the OS level. Currently if you want to manipulate a file/resource which is a remote computer, it is not easy to do it. you should know the application that handles that protocol and any switches you may need for that application. But there is already an answer to that. You can use URIs to refer to these resources.

e.g. when you want to copy a file from a remote computer to your computer you should use

hi,
i tried to create my account and i received message that password was sent to my email, but i didn't receive it. i tried to generate new password but i also didn't get it.
my login is morgwai and my email should be morgwai at wp dot pl - maybe i've made a spelling mistake in it, but i don't think so...

thanks and regards

Jeremy,

How can I get the visitors counter on the blog ?
I remember we hv it last time :)

I'm currently experiencing some network issues preventing me from receiving email and causing a few other problems, hence no recent updates on KernelTrap. Additionally, the server is unable to send email, preventing new user accounts from receiving their passwords, etc. I hope to have these issues resolved soon.

I would like to know how to add a specific article or forum topic discussions to my personal blog.

Appreciate the helpful information.

thanks
--gb

Hi,

I would like to add a specific forum topic as RSS feed to the webpage. How can I do this? For example, I would like to add "Linux kernel 2.4 (Forums/linux kernel/2.4) as an RSS feed.

Thanks for the help
--gb

Do any kerneltrappers have an opinion on plan9? It seems to have an interesting architecture and even has a free software license. Any reason it's not more popular?

Hi!

I was viewing the "Linux: Removing the Philips Webcam Driver" article (http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3729#comment) and changed the "Comment viewing options" from threaded list to "Flat list - expanded", then clicked "Save Settings".
After that another article appeared, instead of the same on , just with different comment view.
Now when I am typing this , I tried it again, and now after clicking "Save Settings" I got to the FAQ (http://kerneltrap.org/faq?PHPSESSID=cdbed1183d2a3bcbb898c62ca55744f5)

Hi, I'm not an expert user, this days I try to install gentoo on my laptop, and is was something (I don't know really how to explain it) but bootstraping the system, it was a very dificult for me.
The situation is:
gcc compiler knows how to optimize programs
we have a lot of scripts and programs that tell us wath are the flags that we can activate or not, to compile to our architecture, and developers can tell us what are the flags that we cant use to optimize software, ok.

For a limited time, KernelTrap t-shirts and other goodies are available for purchase. After a two week wait I finally received my samples in the mail, and I'm happy with the results. It's not as good as if I'd had it silk screened, not by a long shot, but it still looks nice.

What happened? Kerneltrap used to be updated regularly with great kernel stuff making it worth a visit daily. I guess everyone' too busy now... what a shame.