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Conditional_Zenith
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 Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:33 am Post subject: fcron: could not set nice value: Success |
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I am getting lots of log messages saying:
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<some-date/time> <hostname> fcron[<somePID>]: could not set nice value: Success
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These messages always correspond to a message at the same time with the same PID which says "Job <jobname> started for user <username> (pid <some differentPID>)".
These messages about not being able to set the nice value happen almost everytime a job is run, and I can confirm that the jobs are run at nice 0 (they should be running at nice 10).
I can set nice values manually and portage works with is nice variable, and fcron seems to be working fine in all other ways.
Is this a known problem? Have I likely screwed up my config? Is the problem with fcron or somewhere else? |
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Jylppy
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Location: Finland
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:22 pm Post subject: Same problem here |
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| Same problem but no idea how to fix it. J |
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Conditional_Zenith
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| I got around to looking at it more closely today. It seems that the jobs do run with the correct nice value, it is just that this version of fcron mis-interprets the return value of the nice system call and therefore complains even if nothing is wrong (and ironically, sometimes doesn't complain when things do go wrong). I had a look at fcron-2.9.5.1 (currently ~x86 in portage) and they have fixed the problem there. |
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